62 Section GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT years, and calculated body mass index) of children were investigated. <...> Main growth indices were compared with the results of the longitudinal study of children born in 1990 from Vilnius city (Suchomlinov, 2011) and the results of the cross-sectional growth studies of Lithuanian children (Tutkuviene, 1995, 2000–2005). <...> Conclusion: stabilization in height and gaining in BMI was observed in children born 1996 in Vilnius city. <...> Key words: longitudinal auxological study, personal health records, height, weight, body mass index Contact information: Suchomlinov Andrej, e-mail: andrej.suchomlinov@mf.vu.lt. <...> GROWTH FROM BIRTH TO TWO YEARS: ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS Sukhova Alla, Fedotova Tatiana, Gorbacheva Anna Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia To estimate the specifi city of growth dynamics of Slavonic children from birth to 2 years in different ecological conditions, data on physical development of children of the former USSR from late 1960’s – early 1970’s were compiled. <...> Among them, samples from the following regions: megalopolis of Moscow; sea port of Murmansk, settled over the polar circle in the permafrost zone; city of Norilsk, settled over the polar circle, one of the most polluted cities in the world; city of Magadan, settled in the permafrost zone, severe climate with short summer; industrial center of Cheliabinsk, air pollution over the norm and high radiation background; industrial center of Kuibishev, the highest level of the air pollution in Russia; industrial agglomeration of Donetsk, a zone of ecological disaster with the extreme exhaustion of natural resources. <...> Growth patterns of four main indices of physical development (body length and mass, chest and head circumferences) were compared at different age groups: at birth, 1, 3, 6, 12, 18 and 24 months of age. <...> The highest indicators of physical development and the rate of their changes through 0-2 years interval belong to the children from rapidly developing urban centers with intensive migration processes – Moscow, Murmansk, Kuibishev. <...> Evidently, high level of urbanization is positively correlated with the high level of medical service. <...> Children growing in the severe conditions of the North, in Norilsk and Magadan, have lower indices of physical development and lower rates of their <...>