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Bigfoot Research in the Soviet Union
and Contemporary Russia
By Paul Stonehill
FATE :: January 2003

Sightings of Bigfoot-like hominid creatures have been reported for many years in rugged, isolated areas of Russia. As a consequence, numerous Soviet and Russian scientists and researchers of the paranormal have attempted to study Bigfoot.

In the Soviet Union, the beast was known as Snezhni Chelovyek (Snowman or Snow Person). Back in the 1950s, the Soviet Academy of Sciences had a special commission to study the "Snowman."

Expeditions to the Soviet Pamir Mountains (in Central Asia) failed to find the Snowman, and the government stopped taking its existence seriously. Yet there continued to be numerous reports of sightings of the mysterious creatures throughout the USSR. 

One of the leading Russian authorities on Bigfoot was Maya Bykova, who passed away in 1996, leaving behind a legacy of serious scientific inquiry into the phenomenon. Bykova graduated from the Moscow Agricultural Academy in 1955. For many years she studied Bigfoot (naming it Relict Hominoid), and she authored three books on the elusive creature: A Legend for Adults; He Is, Though He Must Not Be; and Not That Frightful Thing...

Beginning in 1972, Bykova organized a dozen expeditions to search for traces of animals unknown to science. None of these expeditions obtained the support of official government agencies. After long years of study, she came to some interesting conclusions ...

Read the rest of this article in the January 2003 issue of FATE

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