[The medical anthropological study of the bone remains from the Yekaterinburg burial]. / Mediko-antropologicheskoe issledovanie kostnykh ostankov iz Ekaterinburgskogo zakhoroneniia.

Results of medical anthropological expert studies of bone remains of Emperor Nicholas II, his family members, and persons in their attendance are presented. Craniological (including computer photoblending), odontological, osteometric, and spectral methods were sued. Numerous photographs, Imperial Family clothes from museums, soil specimens from Tsarskoe Selo and place of burial were used. Expert studies confirmed previous conclusions on personal identification of skeletons as Nicholas II and four Imperial Family members. Additional proofs of identification of skeleton No. 6 as Great Princess Anastasia Nikolaevna are presented. No remains which could be identified as Cesarevich Alexei Nikolaevich and Great Princess Maria Nikolaevna were found. The so-called "adolescent teeth" are upper teeth of a subject aged 17-18. Rare odontoglyphic characteristics of these teeth permit referring them only to skull No. 6 (Great Princess Anastasia Nikolaevna) but not to an adolescent, specifically, to Cesarevich Alexei Nikolaevich.

Transferrin types in different ethnic groups of the USSR and Mongolia.

Transferrin (TF) subtypes were studied in 7 different populations from the Soviet Union (Buryats, Russians, Koreans, Kirghizes and Pamirians) and in 3 different populations from Mongolia. The frequency of the C2 gene varied between 10.4% in Pamirians and 27.4% in Koreans and was generally higher in populations of Mongoloid origin. The frequency of the C3 gene was found to be very low (nonpolymorphic) in the Mongoloid groups, but it was also low (1.5%) in Russians. Rare B and D variants were found in 7 populations. The highest D frequencies were found in the Mongoloid populations.

[Ecology of the peoples of the Central Asia. the anthropological aspect]. / Ekologiia narodov Tsentra'lnoi Azii. Antropologicheskii aspekt.

The results of the long-term investigations of the original Altai-Sayany inhabitants' morphophysiological features in connection with general research of adaptation to Alpine, steppe, taiga and desert ecological niches are represented in the article. The morphophysiological characteristics of the studied ethnic groups reflect the adaptations to cold stress. The features of specific adaptation to Alpine, steppe and taiga zones are found against a background of expressed continental adaptive type. In conclusion the author discusses the perspectives of further human ecology investigations of Mongolia as a model territory for studies of process of adaptation to climate-landscape conditions in Central Asia.