[Physical development of preschool children from rural areas living under favorable socioeconomic conditions].

The authors describe the results of auxological investigations of 980 preschool children from rural areas, born and brought up in good socioeconomic conditions (in state farms--PPGR selected according to best achievements in agricultural production). The somatic development of the analysed children was higher than that of rural children in the whole country, but lower than that of urban children. The health status of examined children should be considered as good, but a higher percentage of various types of traumas and increased caries of the first dentition are observed.