The Horse in Bohai and Jurchen Societies - Based on Osteological Studies from the Southern Part of the Russian Far East research-article Alexander Alexeevich Kim (Алексеевич Ким Александр) Central Asiatic Journal, Jahrgang 64 (2021), Ausgabe 1-2, Seite 155 - 164 The horse played an important historical role in Bohai and Jurchen societies. Both the Bohai and the Jurchen peoples were originally nomadic groups and used horses intensively for military activity, hunting, transport and for sacral aims, too. However, the horses used in both societies were small in size and did until relatively recently not exist in the Russian Far East. The goal of this work is to deliberate by means of osteologial and historical analysis the origins of the medieval horse in the Russian Far East.