NO. 13 SOVIKT ANTHROPOr.OCY — FIELD II5 



MGU Moskovskii Gosuilarstvcnnyi Universitet [State 



L'liivcrsity], Moscow. 



U.\N L'krainska .'\kadeiniia Nauk [Ukrainian Academy 



of Sciences, formerly VU.^N, later .^NU], Kiev. 



L'NKIIU Lpravlenie Nauchnykh i Kliudozhertvennykh 



Upravlcnii [Russian S.T.S.R. Bureau of Scientific 

 and Artistic Institutions of the Commissariat of 

 lulucation]. 



UZKOMSTARIS Lxbekistankii Komitct po Okhranc Pamiatnikov 



Stariny i Iskusstva [Uzbekistan Committee for the 

 I'rcservation of Monuments of .\ntiquity and Art], 

 currently known as Uzbckistanskii Komitet po 

 Okhrane i Izuchcniiu Pamiatnikov Matcrialnoi Kul- 

 lury [Uzbekistan Committee for tiie Preservation 

 and Study of Monuments of Material Culture] . 

 Tashkent. 



SREDAZKOMSTARIS . .Srcdne .\ziatskii Komitct po Oklirane Pamiatnikov 



Stariny i Iskusstva [Central Asiatic Committee for 

 the Preservation of Monuments of Antiquity and 

 Art], Tashkent. 



VOKS \'scsoiuznoe Obshchestvo Kulturnykh Snoshenii 



[.\ll-Union Society for Cultural Relations with 

 I'oreign Countries], Moscow. 



While all scientific research is under the supervision of the Academy 

 of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., the greater part uf all archeological work 

 is done by lAE, IIMK, UAX, and local governmental bodies for the 

 Study and Preservation of Ancient Monuments, such as UZI>IOM- 

 STARIS and SREDAZKOMSTARIS. 



Physical anthropologists are attached to these museums and insti- 

 tutions. There is assembled under M. Plisetskii, Director of MGU, 

 an excellent stafT including G. F, Debets, \'. V. Dunak, and, until 

 his death in Turkestan during 1937, A. 1. lArkho. In the museum 

 of MGU there are some of the best anthropological exhibits, study 

 collections, and research facilities. 



Throughout this report ^ the names of physical anlhropologisls are 

 given in parentheses to indicate the group with \vh(!ni tluy wurked, 

 e.g., Uzbeks (Vishnevskii). 



All words in brackets have been inserted by the editors in order to 

 elucidate the text. 



^ Henry Field attended as a guest the Jubilee Session of the -?20th Anniversary 

 of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. from June 15-July 6, 1945. in 

 Moscow and Leningrad. He accompanied 15 United States scientists on this 

 nn'ssion. During 4 weeks he obtained recent information on Soviet anthropology 



