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3D model Narrated

“snowman commission”

Stories3

A. G. Pronin's Snowman on the Fedchenko Glacier, Pamirs (1957)

August 1957 · Balyandkiik River valley, Fedchenko Glacier, Pamir Mountains, Gorno-Badakhshan

Tajikistan

Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources

28Thinly documented

Dr. Vazgen Karapetyan and the Captured Wild Man of Dagestan

December 1941 · Near Buynaksk, Dagestan, North Caucasus

Russia

Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources

20Thinly documented

Topilsky's Pamir wild man

1925 · Vanch Mountains, Pamirs, Vanj District, Gorno-Badakhshan

Tajikistan

Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources

22Thinly documented

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Boris Porshnev Person · 6 stories
A Soviet historian at the centre of the hunt for Russia's wild men.
Porshnev Person · 6 stories
Boris Porshnev wrote from the Soviet hominology tradition.
USSR Academy of Sciences Organisation · 5 stories
The Soviet Union's leading scientific body twice brushed against the archive's stranger cases.