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This study presents anthropometric indicators in a sample of elderly men aged 60 years and older (mean age 67±0,7 years, n=124) living in the Magadan region. It is shown that the examined sample has a significant decrease in body length due to a decrease in sitting height, which leads to the formation of a disproportionate somatotype and is observed against the background of an increase in chest circumference, total fat content and body mass index without a decrease in body weight and muscle component of body composition. It was found that overweight was characteristic of 58%, obesity of the first degree was detected in 25% of the subjects, and normal body weight was noted in 17% of elderly men. But at the same time, it should be emphasized that in the examined group, in the absence of significant dynamics of body weight relative to men of working age, an «artificial» increase in BMI by 2,1 kg/m2 was detected, due to a decrease in body length. The absence of a decrease in the muscular component indicates the absence of a tendency to sarcopenic manifestations and reflects a favorable trend in the formation of the somatic status of elderly people living in the North. Thus, the indicators of physical development obtained in our study in the group of elderly Northerners can be the basis for the formation of normative anthropometric data specific to the elderly.