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According to such scholars as G.A.Klimov and W.P.Lehmann, the early Proto-Indo-European belonged to the languages of the active-stative typology or had some relics of this morphosyntactic type. In the languages like Russian, which have preserved their synthetic means of expression, the residues of the active-stative typology are still evident. In the article it is argued that in case of Russian some of these residues were «refrigerated» due to the influence of the Finno-Ugric substratum («refrigerator effect»).