Morphological, functional, and psychological development of children living permanently in the Tyva Republic

For estimation of national-ethnic features of the development of young school-children, 1,928 children 8-11 years old of the Russian and Tuvinian ethnicity permanently living in urban and rural areas of the Tyva Republic were studied. The level of physical development, parameters of cardio-respiratory system, psycho-physiological status, functional asymmetry of brain, memory and attention were estimated. It was established that despite accelerated development of all children, Tyvinian schoolboys have lower parameters of physical and mental development, but a higher level of functional condition of cardiovascular and respiratory systems in comparison with Russian children. The Tyvinian schoolboys demonstrated stronger adaptive mechanisms to school learning than Russian pupils that testified to discrepancy of training methods to type of thinking and to a level of neurodynamic processes development.