Abstract: An anthropological study was made in July, 1987 on Tajik nationality including 100 male and 55 female adults.
The results of the survey can be summarized briefly as follows:
1. The physical characters of Tajik nationality:
The index of head belongs to mesocephaly, hypsicephaly and metriocephaly. The head breadth, face breadth and nose breadth belong to narrow type. They have no Mongoloid fold. Breadth of eye aperture is wide. The interocular breadth is larger than nose breadth. Nasion is high in position. The direction of nasal tip is hang down. Forms of nostrils are oval and elliptic. The largest diameter of nostrils is oblique and sagittal in position. The type of ear lobe is round. The arm-stretch is long.
2. Tajik nationality has characteristics closely related to white race.

Key words: Tajik; Anthropometry; Somatoscopy