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The article deals with the anthropological features of the mail skulls of Brigades (9th - 12th Cent.) from the burial grounds in the villages Shestovytsia, Hushchyn and Orgoshch (Tabaivka), Chernihiv district of Chernihiv region. The author explored 25 male skulls from the excavations of 1872, 1956, 1983 and 2018 according to craniometrical data. The author compares general male group from the Brigade burial grounds of Middle Desna region to the synchronous selections from Eastern Europe and argues that the belongs to mesodolichocranic craniological type with the moderately wide face, similar to «polians» from Chernihiv, Pereiaslav and Kyiv, according to T. Aleksieieva. The investigated male series is similar to materials from the entombments from Halych, Liubech and Iaroslavl. It is possible to reaffirm the conclusions by P. Pokas about the non-homogeneity and mixed compound of male skulls from the Brigade necropolises as well as about their morphological resemblance to the townspeople from Halych, Iaroslavl, Zhelni and Liubech (various regions of Southern Rus and Rostov-Suzdal principality). The noticeable difference between the groups from Caucasus (8th - 12th Cent.) and the Slavonic series (9th-13th Cent.) and their resemblance to general selection from the Brigade necropolises of Chernihiv Desna region was not found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]