The first steps of the formation of the science of man in Soviet Belarus (1920’s)
The article based on archive documents shows difficult and contradictory process of the very beginning of establishment of anthropology in BSSR in 1920s, which often meant broken plans and completely changed fates of researches. Importance of their researches for historians is underlined, as they provide definite data on certain groups (social, age) of population, needed for modeling of everyday history of Belarusians. They are also important for researches of other scientific branches, arisen under direct influence of anthropology: history of mentalities, historic anthropology, microhistory, etc.