The whole truth about purebred Russians. Armenian nose

The question of the nation and the so-called “purity of blood” concerns everyone differently. There are people who had representatives of different nationalities in their family, and they are not at all worried about this and are proud of their ancestors. And there are those who do not accept representatives of other races and despise them. They get married only after making sure of the pedigree of their future half, and, noticing even the slightest nuances in it, they immediately break off any relationship.

Fact or Fiction

Many people still argue about who the Aryans are. Translated, "Aryan" means "respected", "worthy", "noble". However, this term is not scientific. It was put forward by nationalists with the aim of dividing people living at that time into worthy and unworthy. The first included representatives of European nationalities, primarily belonging to the so-called Norman type. Traditionally, this is the name given to people from Northern Europe who have a strong build, blond hair and blue eyes. The representatives of those who, according to the nationalists, were unworthy of life, were primarily considered to be Jews.

Hitler's theory

Surely everyone knows that Hitler’s dream was not only to conquer the whole world, but also to create an ideal race, according to his theory, of fair-haired and blue-eyed people. To understand who Hitler’s Aryans are, just read his quote:

“The entire human culture, all the achievements of art, science and technology, which we are witnessing today, are the fruits of the creativity of the Aryans... He [the Aryan] is the Prometheus of humanity, from whose bright brow sparks of genius have flown at all times, kindling the fire of knowledge, illuminating the darkness of the dark ignorance, which allowed man to rise above other creatures of the Earth."

Given his character and pathological determination in achieving the goals he set himself, Hitler made demands not only on the external data of ideal people. Defining who the Aryans were, he also took into account character traits, lifestyle, principles and even characteristics of sexual development and maturation. The requirements were very strict, but the desire for a fictitious ideal was so high that those who did not meet the slightest requirement were expelled from the caste of the chosen in disgrace and could even be physically destroyed. Arguing on the topic of who the Aryans were, Hitler acted harshly: compassion was alien to him, and with equal success (if one can put it that way, of course), both children and adults were destroyed on his orders.

Making a portrait of an Aryan

To imagine who the Aryans are and what they look like, you can familiarize yourself with the supposed criteria that were applied to the appearance, character type and characteristics of the physical and sexual development of this category of people.

So, a real purebred Aryan is distinguished by:

• very light, almost snow-white skin;
• light, preferably Blue eyes;
• smooth and thin hair of light shades;
• height of at least 180 cm (women may be shorter);
• weight proportional to height;
• refined facial features, long thin fingers;
• lack of hair on the back, legs, other manifestations on the face and genital area are mild;
• high forehead and regular shaped skull;
• absence of brow ridges;
• the presence of a sign of a metopic suture on the forehead;
• evenly set eyes;
• straight and healthy teeth;
• late puberty and late aging;
• pleasant sound of speech;
• mandatory talents and (preferably) genius;
• lack of desire for physical and monotonous work;
• equilibrium;
• independence from alcohol and drugs;
• lack of susceptibility to hereditary diseases (in principle, a person should not get sick);
• accuracy;
• complete rejection of even the thought of an alien racial culture, religion, dislike of Jews;
• selective and picky in sexual relations;
• strong concepts about the value of family;
• An Aryan woman is beautiful, slender, faithful to her husband, loves children, an excellent housewife, hates Jews.

Having studied these characteristics, you can imagine who the Aryans are and what they look like. A photo of everyone considered to be a worthy representative of the superior race will not give a complete impression, so all that remains is to fantasize.

Helpful information

If you believe the statistics, then most often when asked about who the Aryans are, associations arise precisely with the period of the nationalist movement during the Second World War, but such a nation actually existed and still exists. This question causes a lot of confusion in scientific world, because the Indo-European race, some of whom were called Aryans, really existed.

An artificially created nation or a nation with a historical foundation?

Most peoples of the world speak similar languages. This can only mean one thing: we all have common roots and origins. Even in ancient tribes there was a division of people according to social status, and taking into account natural selection, which under conditions wildlife stood especially tough, only the strongest and most dexterous survived. Tribes consisting of such people conquered territories, later their leaders became rulers, etc. The Aryan tribe was unique.

Its representatives were something of a legend at the time. They were looked up to, imitated, respected and feared. It was precisely because of their historically inherent superiority that Hitler chose them as a model. He was based not only on appearance, although of course this fact cannot be denied. High cheekbones and smooth facial features are characteristic of most Germans, but similar differences in physique are also characteristic of many representatives Slavic peoples, with whom the Nazis waged a fierce struggle. But why should they fight if (based on external signs) they are associated with the Slavs family ties? This dilemma is the reason why it is not possible to get a clear answer to the question of who the Aryans are.

Historical facts

A brief historical overview will help people who are interested in who the Aryans are and where they came from to understand. Tribes living in northern Europe are often called Indo-Europeans. This term is still used today, but has a broader meaning than in the last century. What the Aryans called themselves is still unknown to historians. These tribes occupied fertile lands at that time and are often considered the founders Agriculture and livestock farming.

It’s interesting, but if you believe the research, the Aryans originally lived in the territory modern Russia, not in Germany.

Around the second millennium BC, there was a large-scale settlement of representatives of this tribe throughout the territory globe. Of course, preference was given to areas suitable for agriculture, but the harsh conditions did not frighten them in principle.

As a result of mixing with other peoples, their appearance underwent significant changes, and it became impossible to determine their origin. Even modern indigenous Tajiks have two main types of appearance. One half is dark-skinned, dark-haired and dark-eyed people, and the other half has blond hair and blue eyes. But this does not mean that they are Aryans?

A nation of kings and rulers

Even without really knowing who the Aryans were and where they lived, the ancient kings and emperors recognized belonging to this race as prestigious and were sure to look for the opportunity to find representatives of this race among their ancestors.

Perhaps this is what gave rise to what we call nationalism and fascism. After all, the concept that all people are brothers exists only in church teachings, but practically never occurs in life.

By dividing people into those who are like God (and therefore worthy of worship) and those descended from monkeys (suitable only for providing services to a superior race), our ancestors, without knowing it, laid the foundations for the age-old confrontation between peoples. Some were ready to die to exterminate other races, while others defended their lands and rightly condemned the fascists for their beliefs.

Adolf Lanz theory

At the beginning of the 20th century, the views of the Catholic monk Adolf Lanz on the origins were published human races on the ground. He believed that initially there were two tribes - the Aryans and the animal people. He called the former heroic, and the latter monkeys. The “super talented” Aryans had divine origins and even looked like angels. Demons on earth were symbolized by monkey people: they were incapable of anything except destruction and stupidity, lies and deception. These races hated each other and tried their best to destroy the opposing tribes. The monkeys began to act by mixing blood and seduced Aryan women, and the Aryans tried to exterminate everyone who posed even the slightest danger to dilute their divine blood.

IN currently due to the mixing of blood on Earth, there are people, each of whom belongs to a greater extent to one or another type, therefore, is closer to either God or a demon. It is from this well-known theory that the Nazis start in their discussions about who the Aryans and Slavs are.

Let's sum it up

Who are the Aryans? Where did they come from and who are they? Most likely, this issue will interest humanity for a very long time, but with full confidence we can only say that special attention to this category of people is caused by historical factors that have a serious impact on the development of world society.

An average portrait of modern Russians, obtained by superimposing thousands of photographs and subsequent computer processing. Source: fresher.ru

Geneticists refute popular theories about the influence of the Tatar-Mongol invasion on the “indigenous” gene pool

There is a common opinion that there are simply no Russians as a people, and they all remain in the legends of deep antiquity, and at present the country is inhabited by mestizos of a thousand and one bloods. And, naturally, they refer to the fact that Rus' spent 250 years under the Mongol-Tatar yoke. Actually this is not true.

Who inherited it?

It must be said that over the past ten years the genetics of Russians from Smolensk to Vladivostok have been studied in great detail. Huge contribution Doctors of Biological Sciences contributed to the study of the issue Elena Balanovskaya and her son Oleg Balanovsky. Balanovskaya’s monograph “The Russian Gene Pool on the Russian Plain” is considered one of the fundamental works on this issue.

Important research was carried out by the head of the genetics laboratory of the Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Doctor of Biological Sciences Boris Malyarchuk.

Scientists note that in the Russian genome, when examining mitochondrial DNA inherited through the female line, only 2% of Mongolian characteristics are found. For comparison, for Poles and Czechs this figure is 1.5%. The study of heredity along the male line (the so-called Y-DNA) shows that Mongoloid admixture constitutes about 0.2–0.5% of the Russian genome.

Researchers directly state that Tatar-Mongol invasion left no noticeable traces in the Russian genome. “The Russian gene pool is not intermediate between the typical European and Asian gene pool. The Russian gene pool is the most eastern of the typically European ones,” note the Belanovskys.

Malyarchuk also agrees with them: “It has been established that, structurally, the mitochondrial gene pools of the Czechs and other Slavic peoples (Russians, Poles, Slovenes) are practically the same.”

Geneticists have noticed that the frequency of Mongolian markers in the European part of the country increases not from west to east, but from south to north. This led them to assume that even those oriental signs, which are found in the genes of Russians, are by no means associated with the invasion of the 13th century, but with earlier processes of mixing of the Slavs with Finno-Ugric tribes, which had characteristics similar to the Mongols. This assumption is also supported by the strong heterogeneity (heterogeneity) of the Russian genetic cluster.

The realities of medieval warfare

What happens: no Tatar-Mongol yoke It never happened? Is the great storyteller right? Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev, and his opponents, all those boring archaeologists and unimaginative chroniclers, screwed up?

No, unfortunately. The yoke, unfortunately, was, and Rus' really for a long time was dependent on the Horde.

The problem is that those who talk about the genetic consequences of this conquest transfer ideas about modern-type wars to the Middle Ages. In this case, “mixing” refers to two processes: mass rape of women in captured cities and cross-marriages between the conquerors and the conquered population in subsequent years.

It can be difficult for a modern person to imagine the customs of that time. However, they are very clearly visible when studying sanitary burials from the time of the invasion of Batu Khan. In 2004–2005, an expedition of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences led by Asya Engovatova explored mass graves in historical center Yaroslavl.

Sanitary burial of residents of Yaroslavl who died during the attack of Batu’s army. Source: rusproject.org

Scientists discovered that the male population was killed on the defensive ramparts and outskirts of the city. But women's and children's skeletons were discovered en masse in pits in the center of the settlement. Forensic analysis showed that most of the men died from slashing and crushing wounds inflicted on the face, and most of the women were killed by arrows.

Many townspeople were wounded in the back - this suggests that they tried to escape. Most children died from blows to the head; many were shot with bows, some were raised on spears (characteristic injuries remained on the spines and ribs of several children's skeletons).

In 2011, a similar discovery was made in the city of Vladimir. During excavations in the city center, archaeologists saw the same picture. The remains of people, randomly dumped in wells and utility pits, male skeletons with traces of two or three serious wounds - Russian soldiers fought to the last, - female and children's skeletons with pierced heads.

Skull of a 13th-century resident of Vladimir, killed by a Tatar warrior. Source: rusproject.org

In the graves, scientists found not only fragments of winter clothing, but also a large number of women's jewelry: the conquerors were not interested in enrichment, and certainly not in sexual pleasures. Faithful to the precepts of Genghis Khan, Batu’s warriors purposefully exterminated the population of rebellious cities.

Intolerant Muscovy

As for mixed marriages, here too the conquerors failed to “inherit.” The first decades after the conquest, the Golden Horde khans tried to exercise direct control over Russian cities.

For this purpose, tax collectors - Baskaks, who were accompanied by small detachments of Horde residents, settled in them. However, this practice was unsuccessful. The Russians of Suzdal, Tver, Yaroslavl and Rostov systematically rebelled, slaughtering the occupation forces.

The Horde invariably responded with punitive campaigns, during which the population of the rebel principalities was destroyed as mercilessly as under Batu. In general, assimilation according to the Bulgarian scenario did not work out in Rus'.

Later, when the pendulum of history swung in the opposite direction, and the Moscow kingdom began to absorb the Horde, which had broken up into separate khanates, the attitude towards the Tatars was very, very negative.

Unlike the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (the union Polish-Lithuanian state), Moscow rulers did not allow yesterday’s enemies to settle in compact groups on their territory. Tatar defectors were required to undergo baptism and linguistic assimilation. Talking fact: the first mosque in Minsk, which was then under the control of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, appeared in 1599, and in Moscow only in 1744.

Kitab is a text written in Belarusian language Arabic letters. The legacy of the mass resettlement of Tatars to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

To the question Is it true that Armenians turned black after the genocide? given by the author Hear the best answer is Yes, before that we were blondes

Answer from 22 answers[guru]

Hello! Here is a selection of topics with answers to your question: Is it true that Armenians turned black after the genocide?

Answer from chevron[guru]
A pure Armenian is blue-eyed, if he is black, he is mixed with a Turk, the same is true for Georgians. At least that's what they explained to me themselves.

Answer from Answer + question![guru]
No, the sun is so hot there that soon it will be yellow, the place is oh beautiful and hot.

Answer from Salosi[guru]
Armenians are Indo-European who came from India in the 6th century BC. Why on earth should they be light for Christ's sake?

Answer from Opportunist[guru]
the Turks spoiled them, otherwise they are white and fluffy)

Answer from Lu Mai[guru]
I personally don't care if they are black or white...

Answer from Anahit Gdlyan[master]
It's not true, it's all nonsense. In fact, even before the genocide, we were very dark-skinned, with BLACK eyes and hair; there were no blue-eyed blonds (or redheads either). And why is it nonsense to say that dark-skinned Armenians are necessarily with a Turkish admixture, the majority are such in any case, so does that mean they all have Turkish blood? Then what should real Armenians look like, if not black and with dark hair? Also, why has it become such a mania for many people to like to look like Europeans or Russians (Slavs) and prove their blondeness, redness and blue eyes? This is the same as if Africans will someday begin to prove that they used to be white and had blue eyes. And we are almost not much different from Africans (blacks) in appearance; our skin is also chocolate and not white. After all, we have a mountainous and very dry hot climate, the sun shines very bright for us in Armenia, there is no rain or wind. And as you know, the type of appearance depends directly on the climate, so how can we and with our climate get a northern (Nordic) European and, even more so, Slavic appearance, if we are not Slavs, but Caucasians. Therefore, genocide with the Turks has nothing to do with it. We are black, dark-skinned and this is how it should be and this is normal. We are not white and never have been and never will be, and it’s time for us to come to terms with this fact and live and accept ourselves with the appearance that God gave us, and not develop a complex, trying to get rid of our natural dark complexion and invent myths about fair Armenian ancestors. Wherever Armenians are born, moreover, in a completely Armenian family, even if in Russia or some Northern European country, they will still be born dark. We are very similar in appearance to the inhabitants of southern Europe and Latin America- Spaniards, Italians, Brazilians, Argentines, Venezuelans, as well as Moroccans and Arabs.

Answer from Okov Shamiryan[newbie]
My eyes are blue

Answer from Otto Skorzeny[newbie]
No, purebreds look different.

When describing Ukrainians, they often resort to the old familiar stereotype - “black eyebrows, brown eyes.” But if you look closely, this cliché has long been outdated: among our compatriots there are fair-haired and dark-haired, brown-eyed and light-eyed representatives of Ukrainian lands. "Today" with the help of anthropologists and psychologists, identified seven main types of appearance of Ukrainians and found out what character traits they possess.

As the doctor explained to “Today” historical sciences majoring in Ethnology and Anthropology, leading researcher at the Institute of Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Sergey Szegeda , globally all variants of Ukrainian appearance belong to one large anthropological type, which is already divided into several variants.

"The general type is very clearly expressed against the background of European peoples and is called “Central Ukrainian”, “Ukrainian” or “Dnieper”. But they all imply the same typical appearance: a round head shape, predominantly dark eyes and hair, a relatively wide face and a straight nose. Such traits are characteristic of 60-70% of the inhabitants of our country. Nevertheless, within this general type there are different “shades” of Ukrainians, the clear boundaries of which have long been erased", explains Szegeda.

In addition, in addition to external differences, experts talk about the diversity of habits. As psychologists explained to us, the region of residence, combined with the historical past, shapes different traits character.

"This also affects weather, and the geography of the area,” says psychologist Sergei Steblinsky. - For example, a lot of sun and heat make local residents more joyful and emotional in the south of the country. But the inhabitants of the steppe Ukraine are easy about change and are prone to moving due to living on a plain where there are no natural barriers. If we take the residents of Western Ukraine, we can say that they are more hardened and resilient. Mountain landscape creates intransigence in them and acute feeling justice. But Ukrainians from the north are considered more gloomy, rational and skeptical due to the cold climate".

WHERE LIVE. In the old days, researchers most often encountered this type of Ukrainians in the North-Western Black Sea region, the Lower Dnieper region and partly in Bukovina. In modern Ukraine, these are Odessa, Nikolaev, Kherson, Zaporozhye and partly Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Lugansk regions and northern Crimea. The neighbors Moldovans, Romanians and Bulgarians are considered distant relatives of the Ukrainian southerners.

WHAT DO THEY LOOK? Residents of the southern regions are characterized by a dark appearance: dark hair and eyes, a clear straight nose, men have a thick beard, mustache and chest hair. It is interesting that in appearance, southern Ukrainians are very similar to the inhabitants of the Carpathians, but they are taller, with an elongated face.

STORY. These Ukrainians inherited their appearance from their southern European ancestors: the Iranian-speaking Scythian-Sarmatian tribes who lived here before our era, as well as from the Turkish-speaking nomads of the times Kievan Rus(for example, Proto-Bulgarians).
character. It is traditionally believed that residents of the southern regions of Ukraine are more joyful, optimistic and have an easy-going attitude towards life. They received these character traits thanks to their measured life by the sea and warm climate. In addition, psychologists note that southerners have a sharp mind and a penchant for entrepreneurship.

WHERE LIVE. The name of this type speaks for itself - greatest number Its speakers live precisely in the central part of the country and make up more than 60% of all Ukrainians. According to the first studies, central Ukrainians lived in the Middle Dnieper region, Podolia and Slobozhanshchyna. Today they can be found in Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovograd, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkov, and partially Donetsk, Lugansk and Dnepropetrovsk regions.

WHAT DO THEY LOOK? As for external characteristics, central Ukrainians are literally “average”: a medium-sized face, a round head, medium-sized cheekbones, eyes and forehead, relatively tall stature, darkish eyes and hair. But there are exceptions: in some areas, Ukrainians are darker-haired and dark-eyed, while in others they have relatively flat faces.

STORY. Anthropologists explain the averageness in appearance simply: it was in Central Ukraine that since ancient times the paths crossed and the blood of a variety of tribes mixed: from the massive Dnieper-Donetsk people of the Neolithic era to the sophisticated Trypillians and from the Iranian-speaking Scythians to the local Proslavic peoples. To this day, in the Cherkasy or Poltava regions you can find descendants of Turkish-speaking peoples with flat faces and drooping upper eyelids, as well as descendants of Iranian tribes with dark hair and eyes.

CHARACTER. Psychologists say that central Ukrainians have very developed imagination and fantasy, but at the same time they are very contradictory. They are characterized by mood swings and well-being. The reason for this is the flat region of residence, because of which the central Ukrainians had few barriers and more opportunities.

WHERE LIVE. The second largest anthropological type of central Ukrainians (less than 10% of our country’s population belongs to it), according to earlier studies, lived at the junction of flat Galicia with western Podolia. In modern Ukraine, these Ukrainians are most often found in the Khmelnitsky, Vinnytsia and partly in the Ternopil regions.

WHAT DO THEY LOOK? Representatives of the Danube type are more endowed with Caucasian features than others: a long narrow face, a straight and thin nose, light brown hair and dark eyes (from dark gray to light brown). Genetic brothers of this type of Ukrainians are found today among the Poles - in the Kholm region and in Tomashov.

STORY. Representatives of the Danube type are considered descendants of Celtic and Thracian tribes. This type was formed in the early Bronze Age and spread among the Slavs in the west of modern Ukraine. It is interesting that this type formed the basis of the anthropological characteristics of other peoples: Poles, Austrians, Germans and even Slovenes.

CHARACTER. Like other representatives of Central Ukraine, the “Danubians” are quite changeable, but at the same time very capricious and even anarchic. Moreover, among them there are many skeptics and individualists, which is why, in general, psychologists attribute to them a pessimistic-positive worldview.

WHERE LIVE. This type of northerners settled in the lands of ancient Polesie, Volyn, Northern Galicia and covers about 10% of Ukrainians. Nowadays, modern representatives of this type live partly in the Kiev region, in the Volyn, Rivne, Zhytomyr regions, as well as in the northern regions of the Lviv and Ternopil regions.

WHAT DO THEY LOOK? Representatives of this type have enough light color hair, not too dark eyes and average height. Such Ukrainians have rather archaic facial features: a massive chin and stern eyebrows, a wide and low face. Similar appearance can be found in the southern Baltic, Belarus and western Russia.

STORY. like this characteristic appearance Polesie Ukrainians received thanks to the ancient connections of their ancestors with others northern peoples back in the Mesolithic and Neolithic eras.

CHARACTER. Experts note that Ukrainians of the Polesie type are characterized by a fairly active life position and good developed sense aesthetics. In addition, they are considered to be quite emotional, dynamic, cheerful and decisive.

WHERE LIVE. This anthropological type, extremely rare for Ukraine, is found only in the north of the Chernigov region, namely in the Repkinsky district. Only 0.5% of Ukrainians are carriers of it. According to Ukrainian anthropologists, genetic brethren of the Upper Dnieper Ukrainians can be found among the northern Poles and Belarusians, Mordovians, western residents of the Komi Republic and some groups of Estonians.

WHAT DO THEY LOOK? The main differences between Upper Dnieper Ukrainians are very light eyes and hair (sometimes even red hair), which is not typical for other residents of Ukraine. He also differs from the Polesie type in his narrower face, without archaic features, and rather tall stature.

STORY. Ukrainian anthropologists call the Upper Dnieper Ukrainians a fragment of the Ilmen-Dnieper type, which was distributed in the north-west of the European part of the Russian Federation (near the sources of the Dnieper River and Lake Ilmen).

CHARACTER. Psychologists attribute moderate cheerfulness and a calm disposition to this rare type of Ukrainians. They have a well-developed sense of beauty, a desire for harmony with nature, which flourishes brightly in the north of Ukraine.

WHERE LIVE. Anthropologists often call this type of Ukrainians eastern and include residents of mountainous regions: Transcarpathia, Hutsul region, Prykarpattya and certain regions of Bukovina. On the modern map of Ukraine, they can be found in the Ivano-Frankivsk, Transcarpathian, partially Chernivtsi and Lviv regions, as well as in the Western Ternopil region (with the exception of those territories characterized by the Polesie type). About 6-7% of Ukrainians belong to it.

WHAT DO THEY LOOK? Representatives of the Carpathian type differ most from the typical Ukrainian: anthropologists note that they have a pronounced round head shape, a narrow and high face, a straight forehead, an inexpressive eyebrow and often a convex nose. Experts call their hair and eye color the darkest among all residents of Ukraine, and their height is very low. A similar appearance can be found among the Balkan peoples: Montenegrins, Bosnians, Serbs, as well as northern Romanians and Slovaks. But there is also a lighter version of the Carpathian type: its representatives have not so dark hair and eyes. Such Ukrainians are found much less frequently in this region of Ukraine, and their clear habitat is difficult to determine - due to dense mixing with the dark variant.

Scientists have been arguing for decades about what a Russian person looks like. They study genetic types, physical features, papillary patterns, and even hematological features of blood groups. Some conclude that the ancestors of Russians are Slavs, others argue that Finns are closest to Russians in genotype and phenotype. So where is the truth and what anthropological portrait does the Russian person have?

The first descriptions of the appearance of Russian people

Since ancient times, people have been interested in the origins of the human race, and attempts to explore this area have been made repeatedly. Ancient records of travelers and scientists who noted their observations in detail have been preserved. There are also records in the archives about Russian people, their external and behavioral characteristics. The statements of foreigners are especially interesting. In 992, Ibn Fadlan, a traveler from Arab countries, described the perfect body and attractive appearance of the Russians. In his opinion, Russians “... are blond, red in face and white in body.”


This is what Russian national costumes look like.

Marco Polo admired the beauty of Russians, speaking of them in his memoirs as simple-minded and very beautiful people, with hair white.

The records of another traveler, Pavel Alepsky, have also been preserved. According to his impressions of the Russian family, there are more than 10 children with “white hair on their heads” who “resemble the Franks, but are more ruddy...”. Attention is paid to women - they are “beautiful in face and very pretty.”


Average appearance of Russian men and women

Characteristics of Russians

IN XIX century The famous scientist Anatoly Bogdanov created a theory about the characteristic features of a Russian person. He said that everyone quite clearly imagines the appearance of a Russian. To support his words, the scientist cited stable verbal expressions from people’s everyday life - “pure Russian beauty”, “the spitting image of a hare”, “a typical Russian face”.

The master of Russian anthropology, Vasily Deryabin, proved that in their characteristics Russians are typical Europeans. In terms of pigmentation, they are average Europeans - Russians are more likely to have light eyes and hair.


Russian peasants

An authoritative anthropologist of his time, Viktor Bunak, in 1956-59, as part of his expedition, studied 100 groups of Great Russians. Based on the results, a description of the appearance of a typical Russian was compiled - he is light brown-haired with blue or gray eye. Interestingly, a snub nose was recognized as not a typical feature - only 7% of Russians have it, while among Germans this figure is 25%.

Generalized anthropological portrait of a Russian person

A man in national costume.

Research conducted by scientists using different scientific methods, allowed us to draw up a generalized portrait of the average Russian person. The Russian is characterized by the absence of epicanthus - the fold at the inner eye that covers the lacrimal tubercle. The list of characteristic features included average height, stocky build, broad chest and shoulders, massive skeleton and well-developed muscles.

A Russian person has a regular oval face, predominantly light shades of eyes and hair, not too thick eyebrows and stubble, and moderate facial width. IN typical looks a horizontal profile and a bridge of the nose of medium height predominate, while the forehead is slightly sloping and not too wide, the eyebrow is poorly developed. Russians are characterized by a nose with a straight profile (it is identified in 75% of cases). The skin is predominantly light or even white, which is partly due to the small amount of sunlight.

Characteristic types of appearance of Russian people

Despite a number of morphological characteristics characteristic of Russian people, scientists have proposed a narrower classification and identified several groups among Russians, each of which has distinctive external features.

The first of them is the Nordids. This type belongs to the Caucasoid type, common in Northern Europe, in northwestern Russia, and includes some Estonians and Latvians. The appearance of Nordids is characterized by blue or green eyes, an oblong skull shape, and pink skin.


Russian appearance types

The second race is the Uralids. It occupies a middle position between Caucasians and Mongoloids - this is the population of the Volga region, Western Siberia. Uralids have straight or curly dark hair. The skin has a darker shade than the Nordids, and the eye color is brown. Representatives of this type have a flat face shape.

Another type of Russian is called Baltida. They can be recognized by their medium-width faces, straight noses with thick tips, and light hair and skin.

Pontids and Gorids are also found among Russians. Pontids have straight eyebrows and narrow cheekbones and lower jaw, a high forehead, brown eyes, thin lips and straight light or dark brown hair, a narrow and elongated face. Their fair skin takes tan well, so you can find both light-skinned and dark-skinned pontids. Gorids have more pronounced features than Baltids, and their skin pigmentation is slightly darker.


Russian wedding in national style.

There are many opinions about the external features characteristic of Russian people. They all differ in criteria and morphological characteristics, but, nevertheless, have a number general indicators. After analyzing each type, many of us will find similarities with our appearance and perhaps learn something new about ourselves.