Among illiterate people, the myth is very common that there are no pure Russians, since the Tatar-Mongol yoke remained in Russia for a fairly long time.
And the Eastern Slavs allegedly mixed with almost the whole world. Therefore, many people rely on old misconceptions that have long been debunked. People from other countries are very fond of these delusions, who for one reason or another see in the Russian enemies, and in the Russian people - a horde of Asians. There are other people who just don't know the truth. But, no matter how erroneous the former, no matter how much the latter would like to see uncivilized barbarians in Russian, no matter how minimal the knowledge of the third, the truth has long been known.
A large proportion of ethnic Russians as a whole corresponds not only to the external parameters of the ancient Slavs, but also to the ancient Indo-Europeans, i.e. representatives of the Corded Pottery culture. Anthropologist Carlton Kuhn wrote about Russians: "Their facial features in most cases correspond to the Nordic standard", "Both individually and jointly, most of these people have a Nordic appearance" either in full or in a partial sense "," its markedly heavy lower jaw differs from the Western European Nordic standard, but corresponds to the standard of the Eastern Nordic type found on the remains of the Scythians and in the Minusinsk mounds.
The famous anthropologist V. V. Bunak wrote: “Thus, the Russian population of Eastern Europe forms a relatively homogeneous group of anthropological variants. The average values of the group either coincide with the central Western European values, or deviate from them, remaining within the fluctuations of the Western groups."
Even the famous anthropologist who worked in the Third Reich GFK Gunther noted the presence of a Nordic component in the Russian people, albeit with a high share of the East Baltic component: “The Great Russian regions adjacent to the Baltic are also predominantly Nordic. The Nordic blood manifests itself, first of all, along the Vistula, and even more - along the Western Dvina and in the Southern Volyn. To the south and east, it gradually disappears, its place in the corresponding volume is occupied by the East Baltic blood, and finally the regions with the strongest Central Asian admixture begin. However, in areas where Russian is spoken, the share of Nordic blood can be estimated at 35-40%."
Professor A. A. Zubov, in the monograph “Ethnic Odontology” writes: “In the studied eastern groups, the eastern component is practically not manifested … The main odontological type of Russians is a well-defined western complex and can be tentatively called“Central European”… In general, the samples are very close to each other in taxonomically”.
It is worth familiarizing yourself with the work of the Balanovsky geneticists “Russian gene pool on the Russian Plain:“However, the share of East Eurasian haplogroups in the Russian population was only 2%. That is, a very small amount. Almost as small as in the gene pool of Poles (1.5%) or in the north of Europe, where certainly there were no “Tatar-Mongolian contributions” (0.6% for Norwegians, 0.7% for Icelanders, 4.8% for Karelians, etc.)). The average "background" frequency of East Eurasian haplogroups in Europe is 3.6%. That is, in the Russian gene pool (2.0%) it is even less than the “average for Europe”, so the Mongoloid component in Russians is not just zero, but even with a negative sign.
However, we are not claiming that all Russians are of the Northern European type, or that there are no Mongoloid people among Russians. We are only talking about the base.
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Thus, we can say with confidence that Russians do not have any Mongolian ancestors in their basis, even if some have ancestors among the Finno-Ugrians, who are responsible for the East Baltic component in the Russian ethnos.