The article is devoted to a comprehensive study of the craniological series of the Russian population of the XIV-XVII centuries from the village of Katunki Nizke in the city region. In order to study the processes of variability and adaptation on the basis of the undertaken paleoreconstruction, a comparison was made with modern Russians of the same territory. The recently developed unique technique of "verbal portrait" allows you to get not only a sculptural or graphic portrait based on the skull, but also a fairly complete anthropological description of the external appearance. A new method for assessing the asymmetry of the facial part of the skull is proposed, and the studied features are analyzed in a comparative aspect. The intra-group variability of this series is comprehensively characterized, and the continuity of the modern and ancient population in this territory, where a pronounced process of gracilization of head size took place from the Middle Ages to the present, is noted. Keywords: anthropological reconstruction, facial reconstruction based on the skull, craniological and cranioscopic characteristics, skull asymmetry. Introduction The use of anthropological reconstruction when working with a series of skulls provides a unique opportunity to characterize an entire population in terms of anthropometry and anthroposcopy of a living face. This kind of paleoreconstruction significantly enriches the methods of comparing ancient and modern populations in the study of ethnogenetic processes. The combination of a graphic or sculptural image of a face with its descriptive characteristics allows us to highlight such aspects of variability that cannot be discussed in the framework of traditional paleoanthropological, population-genetic, and molecular-biological studies. An integrated approach will help to solve the problem of restoring the anthropological features of the external appearance of representatives of ancient populations, where direct fixation of only ... Read more