Динамика показателей физического развития у ярославских школьниц разных поколений

We have studied the dynamic of physical development parameters of the girls in age from 12 to 15 years belonging to different generations and living with the birth in Yaroslavl. We have revealed that the natures of the changes in the physical development of schoolgirls of the late XX – early XХI centuries are ambiguous. 12–age girls had significantly higher body mass and length, circumference of breast compared with their peers in 1971. 13–15-age girls for the last 40 years have seen significant decreasing the body weight and increasing the body length, its can indicate the teenagers asthenia. It was revealed that the growth rate of the basic anthropometric parameters of girls beginning of the XXI century reduced compared to their peers of previous generations. The study of the anthropometric indicators dynamics of schoolgirls helped to better identify patterns of temporal variability of the physical characteristics of children.