The family who never knew about WW2

losthorizon

And they didnt come from Cavan.

A long read but interesting though.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/For-40-Years-This-Russian-Family-Was-Cut-Off-From-Human-Contact-Unaware-of-World-War-II-188843001.html

Owryan

But do they know "who put the ball in the english net " ??????

Sunnyisland

Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of straggly pine and birch forests scattered with sleeping bears and hungry wolves; steep-sided mountains; white-water rivers that pour in torrents through the valleys; a hundred thousand icy bogs. This forest is the last and greatest of Earth's wildernesses. It stretches from the furthest tip of Russia's arctic regions as far south as Mongolia, and east from the Urals to the Pacific: five million square miles of nothingness, with a population, outside a handful of towns, that amounts to only a few thousand people.
When the warm days do arrive, though, the taiga blooms, and for a few short months it can seem almost welcoming. It is then that man can see most clearly into this hidden world—not on land, for the taiga can swallow whole armies of explorers, but from the air. Siberia is the source of most of Russia's oil and mineral resources, and, over the years, even its most distant parts have been overflown by oil prospectors and surveyors on their way to backwoods camps where the work of extracting wealth is carried on.

Karp Lykov and his daughter Agafia, wearing clothes donated by Soviet geologists not long after their family was rediscovered.

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/For-40-Years-This-Russian-Family-Was-Cut-Off-From-Human-Contact-Unaware-of-World-War-II-188843001.html#ixzz2KVbU6WOa
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apache

what?

squod

No mention of a yeti.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

realies you sick fcuk!

Why would you do that to us?

Everyone knows that anything over 3 sentences in here gives you eye cancer!

apache

apache wrote: »

what?

There are still some people in the world who are so isolated that they have no contact or knowledge of the outside world.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Deleted User wrote: »

There are still some people in the world who are so isolated that they have no contact or knowledge of the outside world.

And no Boards!

apache

Deleted User wrote: »

There are still some people in the world who are so isolated that they have no contact or knowledge of the outside world.

thanks for the clear concise synopsis. that will do me

mikemac1

40 years of back taxes, ouch :eek:

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Holy fcukin Jesus

lockon needs a slap

Owryan

mikemac1 wrote: »

40 years of back taxes, ouch :eek:

I scrolled all the way thru that shiote only for you to post what I was gonna. You frakker !!!!!!

howamidifferent

Stealth Recce wrote: »

Holy fcukin Jesus

lockon needs a slap

Absolutely...! My eyes , my eyes... :eek:

apache

ah here

RUSTEDCORE

holy hippos heralding hairy horns hellaciously humping harry harlington harshly herin hours hath he healed how heckled his hungry harpist henry.

Micky Dolenz

mod

Lockon... Do that again and I'll ban you.

Thanks.

Sunnyisland

That was a lovely and sad read, now who is winning the rugby ?

ChunkyLover_53

TL:DR Version

Nosey Scientists kill Isolated Religious Family

Wibbs

Amazing story and amazing how long some of them lived without medical attention.

goose2005

Or as Peig Sayers would call it, "Luxury."

Lawrence1895

Some people even pretend to know everything about WW2 :rolleyes:

kowloon

Wibbs wrote: »

Amazing story and amazing how long some of them lived without medical attention.

First thing I thought, a tooth abscess could be fatal in those conditions. Plenty of opportunity to break a leg living on a steep valley side.

up for anything

Wibbs wrote: »

Amazing story and amazing how long some of them lived without medical attention.

What is even more amazing is that some people found that too long to read. :eek::D

ejmaztec

Deleted User wrote: »

There are still some people in the world who are so isolated that they have no contact or knowledge of the outside world.

99% of the people on here fall into that category.:P

Choked up after this part:

Karp Lykov died in his sleep on February 16, 1988, 27 years to the day after his wife, Akulina. Agafia buried him on the mountain slopes with the help of the geologists, then turned and headed back to her home. The Lord would provide, and she would stay, she said—as indeed she has. A quarter of a century later, now in her seventies herself, this child of the taiga lives on alone, high above the Abakan.

She will not leave. But we must leave her, seen through the eyes of Yerofei on the day of her father's funeral:

I looked back to wave at Agafia. She was standing by the river break like a statue. She wasn't crying. She nodded: 'Go on, go on.' We went another kilometer and I looked back. She was still standing there.

The epitome of loneliness.:(

Pottler

I've the attention span of a gnat. This is about that dog, the littlest Hobo, isn't it?

Bad Santa

Are you fcuking serious, never knew about WW2?!

The year The Undertaker put the slapdown on Stone Cold Steve Austin??

Wow.

john_cappa

Great read! Thanks

Oat23

Here is a documentary (in Russian) from a few months ago when people went to visit Agafia Lykov.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayWPnm0JWG0

Wibbs

She's still around? Bloody hell. Strong woman.

EDIT great link and documentary O even if one's Russian is non existent.

Mr Benevolent

That's nothing compared to living in Leitrim.

Maudi

losthorizon wrote: »

And they didnt come from Cavan.

A long read but interesting though.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/For-40-Years-This-Russian-Family-Was-Cut-Off-From-Human-Contact-Unaware-of-World-War-II-188843001.html

in-cred-ible..!!!what a story.id never heard of it.or anything about it.

ejmaztec

Maudi wrote: »

in-cred-ible..!!!what a story.id never heard of it.or anything about it.

You'll be the subject of a documentary soon,

Queen-Mise

Oatesy23 wrote: »

Here is a documentary (in Russian) from a few months ago when people went to visit Agafia Lykov.

I would love to watch that documentary with subtitles.

Amazing story and the first time I have ever come across it. Thanks OP.

Grayson

cool story.

Capt'n Midnight

Wibbs wrote: »

Amazing story and amazing how long some of them lived without medical attention.

well most of us survived without medical attention until very recently

and they also avoided a lot of infections