TA cross-sectional anthropometric study of 660 girls aged 7 to 17 years, residents of the City of Barnaul and the Altai Krai countryside, has been conducted. There have been detected differences of the girls' physical status depending on their residence in the urban or rural areas of the Altai Krai. The differences were represented by the greater body length (166.8 ± 6.28 cm in the city and 164.8 ± 5.36 cm in the village) and leg length (88.2 ± 6.06 cm in the city and 84.1 ± 4.21 cm in the village) of the townsgirls. The girls from the city had a significantly greater body and leg length throughout the period of the study. The longer lower limbs in relation to the torso and, correspondently, the lower values of the trochanter index were a result of the increasing rate of the prepubertal growth of the girls - residents of the city. A somatotypological analysis has revealed predominance of the normosthenic somatotype among the examined girls. In the city 50% of the girls had the asthenic somatotype, 41 % - the normosthenic somatotype, 9 % - the hypersthenic somatotype. 81 % of the rural girls had the normosthenic somatotype, 8 % - the hypersthenic somatotype, 11 % - the asthenic somatotype. The representation of the persons with the andromorphic somatotype decreased with the trochanter index increase.