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Structural changes in Finemet based alloys invoked by germanium replacement for silicon were investigated using the X-ray diffraction, the X-ray absorption spectroscopy and the Mössbauer spectroscopy. Ge substitution preserves a nanostructural character of annealed samples at temperature 550°C; specifically the formation of a DO_3-type with about 19 at.% of (Si,Ge) was confirmed. The mean size of nanocrystals was estimated to be about 7 nm.