This paper reports the results of the analysis of the subject-matter and the structure of scientific articles related to forensic biology published in the journal “Sudebno-meditsinskaya ekspertiza” over the period from 1960 till 2010. The sceintometric analysis made it possible to  distinguish the main avenues along which forensic biology developed during its most productive period. The results of this analytical study have provided in the summarized form the entire spectrum of the main trends in the forensic biology throughout the half-century period.