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If the beginning of the Petrine reforms, average growth in adult men is 163 centimeters , after they fell by 2.5 centimeters . Then it rose slightly , but in times of Catherine II, fell again to 4.5 centimeters . This is despite the fact that the minimum growth recruit in the army of 160 , see further growth gradually increased until the next reform . And the next global reform that changed the life of the country - the abolition of serfdom by Alexander II in 1861 . Since the last quarter of the nineteenth century and almost to the end of the average man's growth has decreased by 0.5 see, respectively, deteriorated , and other physiological indicators ....
Giant ...))

Absolutely , and more specifically , in my close heart city:

In 1896, in Feodosia circus Beskaravainyi Ivan Poddubny won
 very well known at the time athletes - Luriha , Borodanova , Razumov , Italian, Pappy .

 Since he began his career fighter .