[The creation of an all-Union registry of typed donors--the first stage towards bone marrow transplantation from an unrelated donor].

The changes in tactic approaches may be recorded in clinical transplantation of the bone marrow (TBM). The countries of Europe and America realize TBM from the HLA-compatible unrelated donor. The first stage in such TBM is the establishment of the All-Union Register of typified donors which includes about 8,000 persons and is the member of the World Donor International Association. The authors describe the scientific and organizational principles of the work in the international regime; provide the ethnic and genogeographic characteristics of the All-Union Register. Give brief data on the activity of the All-Union Register during April 15 -- December 1, 1990.