Creative contribution to anthropology of Eurasia made by T.A. Trofimova
The historiographical plan article focuses on the scientific advances of Tatiana Trofimova (1905-1986) - the known Russian anthropologist. Competent assessment of contemporary researchers about her significant contribution to study anthropology of Tatars from Volga-Urals and West Siberian regions, paleoanthropology Volga region and Central Asia, the ancient Khorezm, craniology eastern and western Slavic tribes of the Middle Ages is given. A large expeditionary activity, which began as early as her student years under the leadership VV Bunak, BS Zhukov, ON Bader, PI Zenkevich, formed professional qualifications and scientific outlook. She was a member of the same young team followers of AI Yarkho (a theorist and practitioner in the study of human races) as the outstanding scientists of the twentieth century NN Cheboksarov, GF Debets, MG Levin. Her carefully executed and largely pioneering research works shut a white spots at the historical anthropology of Eastern Europe and Central Asia peoples, and the main conclusions are not lost scientific value. The book «Ethnogenesis Volga Tatars in light of anthropology» [1949] and «Paleoanthropology of Central Asia» [1972 - in collaboration with VV Ginsburg] remain among the reference books of professionals. The article informs also the continuation of the anthropological study of the Turkic peoples of the Volga region and Western Siberia in the complex methodological basis. List of TA Trofimova's publications is attached to the article (54 titles).