Dmitrii S. Konopelkin, Natalia N. Goncharova

Lomonosov Moscow State University (neft4dead@gmail.com; 1455008@gmail.com)

Key words: anthropological type, craniology, urban and rural population, Eastern Europe of 16th–18th cc.

The article analyzes the differences in craniometrical characteristics of citizens and villagers to find possible bases of the developing of anthropological features of residential and rural population of Eastern Europe at the turn of Middle Age and Modern Age. The regularities discovered during the comparative analysis of urban and rural groups reflect the influence of urbanization processes as well as the impact of more broad-faced and more stout population of the western regions of the Eastern Europe formed probably on the Baltic basis. The population of the Middle Volga Region towns keeping the general tendencies of citizen panels displays features common for Eastern Finnish groups which testifies the impact of the population on the citizen populations of Middle Volga Region.