Pigmentation: Russia vs Sweden and Norway
Russia - two main groups
Ilmen-Dnepr group (stretching from Archangelsk to Kiev)
Light eyes - 45-57%
Fair hair - 29-40%
Valdai group (stretching from Novgorod to Kiev)
Light eyes - 50%
Fair hair - 40%
+ Don-Sursk group (with Med. admixture) (concentrated in Southern Central Russia in the Ryazan-Tambov-Penza region)
Light eyes - 50%
Fair hairs - 29%
Scandinavia: eyes
Sweden
Retzius and Fürst found 67 per cent of light eyes, 29 per cent of mixed, and 4 per cent of dark. In the first category were presumably included light eyes wit a slight spotting, as in the Martin numbers 13 and 14. The Lundborg and Linders study, made with a different observational scheme,61 raised the first category to 87 per cent, and the third to 5 per cent.**
**1 = light iris (blue, gray, pale yellow, or green), also light iris with insignificant brown spots, points, or patches; 2 = mixed iris and light iris with brown aureole; 3 = light brown or dark iris." L. & L., p.10. )
Norway
In eye color as in hair color, the native farmers art lighter than the recruits, with 86.5 per cent of light and light-mixed eyes (Martin #12-16) as against 76 per cent. Of the recruits, 38.5 per cent have pure light eyes (Martin #15-16). This is by no means the Lightest-eyed region in Norway. This material shows us what had been previously suspected, that the Nordic eye must be considered light mixed in typical form, rather than pure light. According to Bryn the commonest form of unpigmented eye found in this region is a light blue one, with large meshes and iris fibers set quite far apart, so that the iris pattern appears open.
Scandinavia: hairs
FISCHER Nos.........DESIGNATION...........SWEDEN ..........NORWAY
12-25....................flaxen............ ...........6.9 %.............27.9 %
7-11, 26................light brown................62.5............... .50.0
5-6........................brown (medium).......25.1................17.2
4...........................brownish black............2.0.................3.7
27-28.....................black............ .............0.2.................0.1
1-3.........................red........... ................3.3.................1.3
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While it can be rather difficult to correlate avalable figures with great precision, I still may make the conclusion that the basic Russian types (there are more fair, and less fair types too, but it's exactly the basic, most numerous types) are somewhat less pure-light-eyed than Swedes and Norses (and have a bit more brown eyes), but much more fair, and thus, on average, significantly blonder, even in comparison with Norway.
PS. But Finns are even more fair :-))
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