Аңдатпа
In recent years increased attention has been paid by medical people, particularly those in social hygiene, to problems of the establishment and development of student families as a distinct category in social demography (O. V. Grinina; A. K. Alpatova, Macheneve Laimute-Regina, Iono; M. I. Panachina; N. N. Stepanova). And this is quite natural. The timeliness of this trend in research arises, if from nothing else, from the fact that there were 5.1 million students in the higher educational institutions of the USSR in 1978-79 (1), of which more than half were women.