ABSTRACT
In 1929, associates of the Institute of School Methods made two expeditions — into mountainous Altai and Northern Baikal — on commission from the People's Commissariat of Education. The purpose of the expeditions was to study the influence of specific living conditions in these remote regions on child development. The investigations were carried out under the general direction of the senior Soviet psychologist A. M. Shubert, and followed a comprehensive program, using a variety of methods. The results were published in 1930. (1) The investigators accumulated and analyzed a mass of scientific material on many levels that gave a picture of the living conditions of Oirat (Altai) and Tungus (Evenok) children and of the distinctive features of their physical and mental development.
