Igor Burtsev about the Kemerovo Yeti. Historian Igor Burtsev: “No one needs Bigfoot” (photo) Igor Burtsev Yeti

So said Igor Burtsev, candidate historical sciences, Director of the International Center for Hominology, President of the Foundation for the Promotion of Scientific Research and Exploration of the Cryptosphere. He led an expedition to search for Bigfoot in the taiga of Mountain Shoria. And now Burtsev has provided irrefutable, in his opinion, evidence that the yeti lives in these places. According to him, this is most likely a man of flesh and blood, who exists "adjacent" or in parallel with us. - There is nothing surprising in the fact that this creature is encountered here.

Mountain Shoria is part of the Altai mountain system and is considered a "breeding place for Bigfoot". This is a sparsely populated mountainous area, where there are many caves, where it is warm enough, there is clean fresh water and a lot of food.

Based on my 45 years of research experience, I am sure that Bigfoot really exists in these places,” Igor Dmitrievich told reporters from federal and regional media who arrived in the Azasskaya cave. The scientist's confidence increased after a chain of three footprints of a creature about two meters tall was discovered on the damp sandy-clay soil of the cave ...

Yeti Ritual

We joined the expedition “Following the Footsteps of Bigfoot”, which was initiated by newly discovered artifacts, in Tashtagol. It was hard not to notice on the side of the road a "caravan" of two "gazelles" of silver color and the traffic police car accompanying them. Journalists from federal and regional TV channels, who came from Moscow, Novosibirsk and Kemerovo, while waiting for a trip to Ust-Kabyrza, talked with Valery Kimeev, Doctor of Historical Sciences, ethnologist at Kemerovo State University. Valery Makarovich told how in 1982, during one of the expeditions, he observed the flight of an unidentified flying object in these places. “I tend to believe him. The man is a serious, scientist,” Vasily Dovgoshey, deputy head of the All-Russian Scientific Research Public Association Kosmopoisk, later said. He came to Gornaya Shoria as an expert on UFOs. Since a version was put forward about the appearance of a yeti in these parts from ... space.

Finally, Vladimir Makuta, the head of the Tashtagol region, approached the scientists and journalists. And the members of the expedition moved to Ust-Kabyrza to visit the Azas cave. It was the second day of the expedition members' stay in Tashtagol. Before that, they visited the museum of ethnography. There, Burtsev donated to the museum exhibition photographs, articles, plaster casts of footprints and other artifacts related to Bigfoot, which he found in Abkhazia, the USA and Mongolia. In addition, the expedition members visited Mount Zelenaya in Sheregesh and visited the shaman Nadezhda Kirsanova, hoping to hear something about the object of their search, or the spirit of the taiga "ezi", as the Shors of the Tashtagol region call it. Nadezhda made it clear to the guests that these conversations were taboo for her: “There is nothing to unreasonably disturb the spirit of the forest without certain rituals ...”

The operator of the Russian TV channel Alexander Pushin spoke about this the next day, when we were driving the Ural all-terrain vehicle through the impenetrable taiga. Alexander admired the beauties of the taiga, repeating admiringly: “Well, this is real Switzerland!” Yes, and other cameramen constantly asked the driver Igor Povarentsev to stop in order to film another corner of the mountain-Shor exotic. “Here is a rock, there is no soil ... But birch, pine and cedar trees grow. Why not a miracle? Vladimir Makuta commented.

Place for hermits

The fact that they went in search of Bigfoot without a ritual soon really affected ... The Ural got lost. The driver and guides rushed to look for a road in the direction of the Azas cave. “After all, somewhere here in the winter there was a cut,” Igor Povarentsev was perplexed. They went looking for the road and disappeared. "Did they quit?" the journalistic fraternity chuckled nervously. Finally, the guides appeared, and the path to the Azasskaya cave was continued. They descended almost over the cliff, adding to the guests of the capital the feeling of “full extreme and flying away,” as one of them put it.

We stopped in a clearing two hundred meters from the cave. “The hermit Nikolai Osipov lived at this place. For several years alone in the taiga, can you imagine? He kept cattle, a garden, he milked a cow himself ... Here he had a bathhouse, - the driver nods at the remains of the log house. - Here was a hut ... Only in old age I moved closer to the people. Now Nikolai is building a house in Ust-Kabyrza.” “Maybe he couldn’t share the territory with Bigfoot?” - we assume jokingly. “Maybe,” Igor agrees.

Every year, before the start of winter, we leave a tree trunk burnt in a fire at the entrance. And every time he finds himself in the most incomprehensible way in the depths of the cave. This is useless for a person, but someone transfers him there! Vladimir Makuta is surprised. The fact is that this time the charred "black mark" was not where it was left last time, but inside the cave. We went to look at the surface of the soil. “Before us, from outsiders, no one has appeared here yet!” conductors assured. And then, carefully peering, and found giant footprints. With a meter span in a step. Enthusiast-researcher Igor Burtsev had no doubts: “A Bigfoot has been here!”

They tell us that we are PR ... Yes, we already have a tourist coming to our beauties! And the river will not withstand more than 25 thousand "rafters". Investments in the construction of the ski complex are coming. In winter, 320 thousand people rested with us ... We will successfully develop tourism even without rumors about Bigfoot. We ourselves are interested to know from scientists: what are we dealing with? What phenomenon did you encounter? After all, since childhood we have been living among these stories, legends and constant meetings of eyewitnesses with the spirit of the forest ... - the head of the district argues, nodding at the "Azas" traces.

Artifacts from the "Mountain of Love"

Igor Burtsev gives his "those very irrefutable arguments." Last year, on Mount Karatag (translated from the Shor language means “Mountain of Love”), five hundred meters from the top, where he traveled with a local guide Valery Topakov, he discovered pyramidal tree structures, the so-called “markers”, obviously not made animals and not humans. Similar to those that researchers find in the United States and Canada. These are creases of branches, thin trunks of birches, aspens and pines in the form of pyramids, branches twisted with superhuman strength or structures made of sticks, built on trees. Scientists also call them "forest houses". Thus, yeti either mark their territory or pave the path for their relatives, explains Burtsev. Last year, on a patch of one hundred meters, he discovered a lot of such fresh and old “markers”. I went looking for them this time too. Found, but only last year. The spring, which was bubbling here, dried up, and, apparently, the mysterious "owner" left these places, the researcher explained.

But the fact that “he is somewhere nearby” was also confirmed by one of the latest cases faced by residents of the taiga hinterland. And in particular, the hunter Afanasy Kiskorov, a resident of the village of Senzasskiye Kichi, located 140 kilometers from Tashtagol. In April of this year, Kiskorov, along with two other villagers, went fishing on the Kabyrza River. Suddenly they heard a strong crunch and a piercing howl. We ran to the noise and saw a huge creature, similar to a man, but covered with dark brown hair, ten meters from the shore. The snarling creature tried several times to get out of the water and stand up, but, sliding off, fell into the water. The villagers at first stood up in fright. But then they decided to rush to help. Kiskorov found a dry aspen trunk and, supported by his comrades, crawled closer to the drowning one... The creature grabbed a stick, got out of the water and quickly disappeared into the forest.

Before that, there were reports from Sergei Shulbaev from the village of Senzas, from Vasily Sheltrekov from the village of Sredny Bugzas, who also saw a strange huge creature covered with wool and its tracks. "But not a bear!" And both asked to send either a local policeman or a hunter to understand: is this a beast or a man?

Anomalous zone

In this expedition, there was a "field of activity" for the "space search engine" Vasily Dovgoshey. He watched a video recording of a flying object made by history students this summer in the Ust-Kabyrza region. And he came to the conclusion: “Still, a good fake!” But Elizaveta Vasilievna Kilina, the head of the Ust-Kabyrzinsky rural territory, objected to him ardently. Early in the morning in February of this year, she, along with two of her fellow travelers, was driving in a car to Tashtagol. And suddenly the residents of Ustkabyrzin noticed a strange phenomenon: a red luminous ball was flying across the sky, as if accompanying the car. “I saw it with my own eyes! And I’m not alone,” Vasily Dovgosheya, the head of the territory, assured. An elderly, serious woman cannot be suspected of fraud. So the participants in the search came to the conclusion that in the vicinity of Ust-Kabyrza there still exists a certain anomalous zone. Judging by the vast geography of the work of Kosmopoisk, there are quite a few such people in the country. And why shouldn't a remote taiga corner be one of them?!

Tuleev urged to organize bait for bears affected by Yeti

Aman Tuleev urged to analyze the observations of the scientist Igor Burtsev that the number of Bigfoot has tripled in Kuzbass. As a result, according to Burtsev, there will be less food in the taiga and bears will go to residential villages for food. In addition to analyzing the situation with the Yeti, the governor of Kuzbass ordered to organize the baiting of bears, allegedly suffering from the invasion of Bigfoot, writes Delovaya Pressa.

Igor Burtsev, director of the International Center for Hominology, said that forest fires forced all snowmen of the Altai Territory to migrate to Kuzbass. He made such a conclusion after a two-day taiga expedition together with a group of scientists in Gornaya Shoria, Kemerovo Region, the place where residents most often saw the yeti.

“The number of snow people in Gornaya Shoria has tripled, now there are about 30 of them here. New paths have appeared that these creatures are laying parallel to human paths. The number of markers that hominids leave behind has increased,” said Igor Burtsev. Also, according to him, due to the increase in the Yeti population in Kuzbass, “they experience some lack of food, which is why local residents often began to see them near the borders of the villages.” During the expedition, Burtsev reportedly recorded 15 eyewitness accounts. So, in the Shor settlement of Ust-Kabyrza, thefts of rams and chickens were recorded. “Bears, which are also very numerous here, are not involved in thefts. They, unlike Yeti, do not drag pets with them. Today in the taiga of Mountain Shoria there is interspecific competition. Moreover, Bigfoot outperform bears in this competition, hominids are more cunning and strong, they have the rudiments of intelligence, unlike bears,” Burtsev noted.

“In October and November, the interspecific struggle will be even more fierce, there will be less food in the taiga. As a result, there is a risk that the bears will not put on fat and will not hibernate, and residents of taiga villages may face serious problems, because hungry bears will go to them for food,” Burtsev said. The scientist turned to the local authorities with a request to solve this problem.

According to the RIC TASS-Siberia, the governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleev called on the administration of the Tashtagol district to analyze the scientist's observations and organize bait for bears "suffering from the invasion of snow people."

April 2009 the governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleev ordered to allocate 500 thousand rubles for the opening of an exposition dedicated to Bigfoot. In addition, two scientific expeditions were organized in Kuzbass dedicated to the search for Bigfoot.

Bigfoot Secrets

Film channel REN-TV from the series "Fantastic stories"

Recently, all the news portals have been covered by a note that the excavator driver of the mine from the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsky Pashkov Evgeny Alexandrovich sent to the International Center for Hominology a video of traces and the most humanoid creature made by a schoolboy Evgeny Anisimov from the Leninsk-Kuznetsk district of the Kemerovo region on January 21, 2013.

As the examination revealed, this creature is the so-called "snowman", or yeti, whose observations in the Kemerovo region have been reported by various eyewitnesses for several years now.

Written by Igor Burtsev, Ph.D. ist. sciences and Bigfoot explorer

Since 2009, as an expert hominologist, I have had the opportunity to visit the Kemerovo region several times, mainly in its southern part - Gornaya Shoria - in order to investigate reports of meetings there with mysterious wild bipeds, known as Bigfoot, or Yeti ( scientific name - relict hominoid, or shortly - hominoid), and for searches and research on this issue. Of the most reliable reports, I will note the evidence former teacher Vladimir Ivanovich Sergeev, a resident of the village of Ust-Kabyrza and a former employee of the Tashtagol administration, Lilia Vasilievna Zenkova. I received her message in March 2011.

In addition to these reports, there were several other testimonies, less vivid.

In addition, in my archive there was one testimony from the Kyshtovsky district of the neighboring Novosibirsk region, dated 2004 - about the meeting of a “snowman” there by a teenager and the investigation of this case by local hunters and policemen, and one message about a meeting with similar creatures in the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsky in 1942.

A lot of material about observations of hominoids to the south, in the mountainous region in Mongolia (Mongolian Altai) adjacent to our Gorny Altai, was collected by me earlier during a long expedition there in 1976 (the local name for the creature in Mongolia is almas).

During expeditions in Gornaya Shoria in 2009-2010. With the help of a local guide, police officer Valery Topakov (now the head of the administration of the village of Ust-Kabyrza), I managed to find a significant number of unusual man-made structures in the forest on the slopes of Mount Karatag - wood markers, which, in my firm conviction, were created by the hands of wild bipedal inhabitants of the forest. In my own way appearance they are similar to similar structures found in other regions of Russia (Kirov, Novgorod, Vologda, Leningrad, Tula, Tver, etc., in the Caucasus), as well as in other countries - the USA, Canada, Australia, and in some European countries.

At the beginning of October 2011, the International scientific and practical conference on hominology, it was attended by scientists and researchers from the USA, Canada, Sweden, Estonia, Russia, including several doctors and candidates of sciences. The program of the conference included two mini-expeditions - to the area of the Azas cave and to the mountain Karatag. The participants of the conference found traces, bedding and hair of presumably hominoids in the Azas cave, as well as several wooden structures made by the hands of "snow people" on the approaches to the cave and on the slopes of Mount Karatag in the Tashtagol region.

Opponents once again declared the finds fabricated by order of the authorities, allegedly to attract tourists to the region. But - the taiga was not slow to answer the skeptics and reinforce the available data with new material evidence.

On November 6 of the same 2011, the Kungushev family - Yuri and Svetlana with their children - found traces of a bipedal creature in the snow on the way to their dacha in Aleksandrovka (near the city of Tashtagol), they also collected hair samples of the alleged "snowman" (yeti). Judging by the footprints, the creature proceeded in a southerly direction.

In mid-December 2011, during an expedition to Kuzbass, a Japanese TV group (producer Katada, host of the Takihara program) examined and filmed footprints in the cave, as well as the discovered creases in the trees along the trail chain indicated by the Kungushevs. The Kungushevs themselves drew attention to these creases only after I discovered them. These creases confirmed the message of the Kungushevs. Some of the hair samples were sent to Japan for research.

In the spring of 2012 (April 24), the Kungushevs discovered new creases in the bushes on the way to their dacha, from which they concluded that the hominoid had migrated back from south to north. During the Italian expedition in June 2012 (leader Marco Zamparelli) these creases were also documented. Some of the hair samples were also given to the Italian team for research.

At the October 2011 conference, Liliya Vasilievna Zenkova spoke about her meeting with Bigfoot in the area of Spassky Lugov on June 13, 2005. Her story also found material confirmation during the Italian expedition: in the place where the creature met by L.V. Zenkova retired, the expedition members documented the wood markers I found there - intertwined tree branches.

In the summer of 2012, Vitaly Vershinin, a fisherman from the city of Myski, sailing on a boat along the river, observed a humanoid creature on the banks of the Mrassu River. In approximately the same places, a similar creature was seen by tourists sailing along the river in a boat.

Photo by Oksana Zhukova (enlarged fragment on the right).

As it became known later, back in March 2012, a young zoologist Oksana Zhukova accidentally saw and photographed, albeit from afar, a humanoid creature on a snowy field near the city of Yurga. This case was investigated and commented on by zoologist Professor Alexander Polyakov from Kemerovo.

And on January 21, 2013, three schoolchildren aged 11-12 years old, while walking near the village located 30 km from the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsky, saw mysterious footprints in the snow, followed them and suddenly noticed a dark two-legged figure not far behind the bushes. One of them, Evgeny Anisimov, who filmed their hike in the footsteps on a mobile phone camera, managed to film it before it noticed them, sharply ducked to the ground and quickly rushed away from them, into the thickets ... The guys were also scared, turned back, and gave a goad from him. As Zhenya Anisimov later explained, at first it seemed to him that this was some kind of man messing around there, but then he saw that he was big, two meters tall, and shaggy.

Evgeny Pashkov, who sent me the video, said that Zhenya Anisimov, who filmed the footprints and the creature itself, is an orphan. His mother died of cancer, and his father committed suicide ... Zhenya has two more younger brothers, aged 8 and 5. They live with their grandmother, Valentina Petrovna Panova, and, of course, they are in need. Therefore, I sent the video to the governor of the region, Aman Gumirovich Tuleev, noting the undoubted value of filming and asking him to encourage the boy financially, given that this is the first more or less reliable and quite visual video footage of the Bigfoot in the history of Russia.

Unfortunately, the administration staff hurriedly posted the video on the Internet, not bothering to process it and drown out the profanity that the guys used during the filming. Based on this, according to the information received, some psychologists arrived at the scene, who told the guys that they had a sick psyche.

Later, local authorities, instead of encouraging them, accused the children of hooliganism and sent police representatives to take action, who were supposed to register them in the police children's room. While it would be necessary to bring to justice those negligent employees of the administration who distributed this video on the network.

When viewing the video, it is clear that the creature was still standing, slightly stooped, arms seemed to hang low. And then, when it noticed the guys, it ducked and abruptly recoiled to the side. When watching the video, our experts had no doubts that it was the Bigfoot that was filmed, it was clear from his posture, reaction, and movements - everything indicated that the shooting was real.

Thus, despite the insinuations of opponents, including foreign ones, the existence of mysterious inhabitants on the territory of the Kemerovo region - "snow people", or yeti - everything is confirmed big amount visual evidence, and in particular - the first in the history of Russia quite convincing, albeit low-quality, video footage of one of these creatures.

According to the footprints that fell into the frame, it is clear that they are, as it were, doubled, that is, they were passed over twice. Initially, we assumed that the creature was walking first towards the village, to the river, and then following its own footprints back to the clearing where the guys found it. But later, researchers from the United States and Canada joined the discussion. They drew our attention to the fact that smaller tracks were imprinted inside the large tracks, and by the nature of the snow removal of their tracks, it became clear that both of them went in the same direction. So, by joint efforts, we came to the conclusion that two creatures left footprints: a large one and a small one. Moreover, the big one walked ahead, paving the way, and the small one followed in its footsteps. By the way, when discussing the video on the site, our opponents noted that the step of the creature is too short. But, apparently, this is due to the fact that the large creature deliberately took short steps so that it would be more convenient for the small one to follow in its footsteps.

Further, at the moment when the big creature noticed the guys, the little one was in his arms or on his shoulder, and the legs of the small one hung down. This was pointed out by our American colleagues, and we agreed with them. And when the creature ducked and darted to the side, it is clear that the body is too wide, which is consistent with the fact that the small creature is in his arms.

Later, Evgeny Pashkov reported that shortly before this meeting, a mink had strangled two dozen chickens at one of the residents of the village, and the owner threw them across the river, just near the place where the guys began to follow the tracks. And the guys hung them in the same place on trees and bushes, just out of pampering. But not even feathers were left of the chickens, as happens when they are torn to pieces by dogs. From this we can conclude that the creatures probably took the dead chickens and carried them away.

Eugene became interested in this case and asked Zhenya Anisimov to take him to the clearing where the guys found the hominoids. They went there, the snow was already covering the tracks, but they were still visible. Eugene walked along them and said that the tracks left that clearing, made a circle and returned back. And then they moved off to the side of the road. In addition, he found in the clearing several trees gnawed at a height of 150-170 cm, and one was gnawed, and the gnawed fragment lay nearby in the snow. It was a dried tree, no more than five centimeters thick. And the bark of a neighboring, living tree was gnawed. At my request, Eugene photographed these trees.

E. A. Pashkov next to a gnawed tree.

Bigfoot Bait.

Since Eugene decided to keep an eye on this place, we advised him to leave some treat for the hominoids. And just in the village, the mink again strangled the chickens. We told him to put some chickens in a bag and hang them on a tree, which he did. Let's see how things develop further...

29 Oct 2010, 05:45

Bigfoot is a legendary creature, the director of the International Hominology Center Igor Burtsev has been searching for for many years. Taiga.info correspondent talked to him about the results of the last autumn expedition to the Kemerovo forests. As they say, the locals have been observing a hairy monster there for the second year.

Bigfoot (yeti, sasquatch, bigfoot, hominoid) is a legendary humanoid creature, the existence of which in the forest and mountainous regions of the Earth is claimed by eyewitnesses. In 2009, traces of yeti habitation were discovered in Kuzbass. In September 2010, the second search expedition took place in the area of the village of Ust-Kabyrza. Taiga.info talked to Igor Burtsev, director of the International Center for Hominology, about the results of Bigfoot research in Russia and Siberia.

Igor Burtsev - Candidate of Historical Sciences, President of the Assistance Fund scientific research and the search for "Cryptosphere", director of the International Center for Hominology. He has been researching the problem of hominoids (great apes) since 1965. He is a participant and leader of many search expeditions in the North Caucasus (Kabardino-Balkaria, 1965), in Azerbaijan (Talysh, 1970-1975), in Abkhazia (1971, 1975, 1978), in Mongolia (1976), in Pamir-Alai (1979). -1982), in the Murmansk region (Lov-ozero, 1990), in Kirov region(2002-2007), in the Kemerovo region (2009, 2010).

Taiga.info: Igor Dmitrievich, you have been studying Bigfoot for many years. What can be reliably said about him: who is he, where did he live or does he live?

- The main thing is a person, not an animal. He has a mind, an intellect. It appeared many centuries ago, long before sapiens, and represents a parallel branch of evolution. It’s just that at some point our paths diverged: they went along the path of psycho-physical development (telepathy, hypnosis), and our ancestors went along the path social development. Therefore, unlike us, they do not influence nature, but adapt to it, do not use fire and tools. At the same time, they are highly intelligent.

Bigfoot appeared many centuries ago, this is a parallel branch of evolution

The average life expectancy of hominoids is about the same as that of humans. There is evidence of a yeti cub found in America, which is now 66 years old. However, their development is faster: puberty occurs at 8-10 years. They live in families: mother, father, child. In old age, they, like us, turn gray, bald, stoop, they have wrinkles.

By the way, our ancestors definitely had ideas about Bigfoot, who called them goblin. Here is the story of the huntsman of the Rybinsk forestry (Krasnoyarsk Territory) Grigory Bychuk, recorded in 2001 by Alexei and Ekaterina Malyshev, where he says that the old hunters always called a living creature a goblin. This creature is taller than a man and covered with hair. The goblin lives in caves along the rocky shores, where a simple random guest cannot enter. In winter, they hibernate, and in summer they eat young shoots of pine trees, collect pine nuts, fish, dig the roots of grasshoppers with their paws, and occasionally feast on bird eggs. This story, published in The Golden Tales of the Yenisei, fully corresponds to the description of Bigfoot!

According to American researchers, Bigfoot can speak. In the US, they use Indian dialects. In Russia, there is information about the conversation with the Yeti, received from eyewitnesses.

Taiga.info: Where can you meet Bigfoot?

- Usually people go to the Himalayas in search of Bigfoot, in fact, it is not at all necessary to go there. Yeti is very widespread, they live on all continents except Antarctica. In Russia, data on the existence of these creatures came from the Kirov, Perm, Leningrad, Kemerovo, Tyumen, Novosibirsk regions, they are known in Altai and Yakutia.

In Russia, data on the existence of these creatures came from the Kirov, Perm, Leningrad, Kemerovo, Tyumen, Novosibirsk regions, they are known in Altai and Yakutia

For example, a few years ago, a teenager in the Kyshtovsky district of the Novosibirsk region collided with a three-meter snowman. And just recently, I met with a group from Vologda region, which in August photographed stunning markers - structures made of poles, sticks, tree trunks, reminiscent of pyramids or a frame from a hut. Without a doubt, this is the work of Bigfoot. Animals cannot braid branches so skillfully, but ordinary people does not happen there. In addition, there were huge footprints nearby. Several equipped family nests were found in one clearing. The floor in such structures is usually covered with grass or spruce branches, and the nest itself is fenced with broken trees so as not to attract the attention of strangers.

As an experiment, volunteer guys left chocolates in a bag in the forest for four weekends in a row, and after a while they found a torn bag and candy wrappers in the same place.

These creatures will choose a place and live there almost constantly. For example, in the Perm region, Alexander Fedenev observed how a Bigfoot came to the same place. To mark their territory, yeti twist branches and saplings, or tear large wood chips from a tree trunk and stick them between rocks.

Taiga.info: In 2009, a strange hairy creature was allegedly seen 450 kilometers from Kemerovo. What are the results of your last expedition to the Kemerovo region?

“Judging by the buildings that I found on Mount Karatag, 30 kilometers from the Azasskaya cave, snow people really live in Mountain Shoria. I saw nine markers there last year and five more this year. These are beds and broken trees. It was difficult to make out the footprints on that soil. But we found a bush with branches woven into a pigtail.

By the way, the Shors know about these creatures and respect them. In Altai, for example, snow people have long been called "almys".

Taiga.info: Why does the Yeti need these pigtails?

- For beauty, they also strive for art. I think for the same reason they braid horses' manes. No other practical reasons can explain it.

Taiga.info: Are they aggressive?

— No, they are not malicious at all, they just like to joke. For example, they may throw something to a person, wanting to play with him. And if a person behaves badly in the forest, kills animals, litters, then the yetis begin to confuse him, leading him astray. According to eyewitnesses, the yeti has the ability to influence living beings, to inspire them with something.

Taiga.info: Research in the field of hominology is conducted not by academic institutions, but by enthusiastic volunteers. Why? After all, back in 1958, the USSR Academy of Sciences created a commission to study the issue of Bigfoot, and Professor Boris Porshnev was the first to give this creature the scientific name "relic hominoid" (humanoid preserved from ancient times).

- The problem is that the study of these creatures is not within the scope of interests of existing sciences and organizations. Anthropologists say: “Give us the bones, then we will study the object”, paleontologists are excavating extinct animals and do not want to look for a living representative of humanity, ethnographers collect folklore, not stories about real meetings with the Yeti, forensic scientists do not want to look for anyone without corpus delicti. It turns out that no one needs a Bigfoot, no one wants to look for him. After the death of Porshnev, all research of the Academy of Sciences in this direction ceased.

Nobody needs Bigfoot, no one wants to look for him

Abroad, this direction is developing more productively. Back in the 18th century, Carl Linnaeus called these creatures homo troglodytos ("cave man"). And recently, the American anthropologist Jeff Meldrum proposed another name - the North American anthropoid. In 1992, anthropologist Grover Krantz recreated the skeleton of the foot of this creature based on the study of Bigfoot footprints and published the book "Bigfoot prints".

However, not all is well abroad. Yeti corpses were at the disposal of scientists twice: in 1968 in the USA and in 1998 in France. But as soon as the press raised a fuss around them, the materials disappeared.

Taiga.info: How many people are in your hominology center?

“About a dozen veterans who are dealing with the problem seriously. There are still young people who organize expeditions. This is despite the fact that there are dozens of centers similar to ours in the USA and Canada! We keep in touch with them. Soon I will go to America to present my book Bigfoot: A New Turn in Research, which I plan to release in a month. There they promised to show me Bigfoot.

Taiga.info: What kind of information about the existence of Bigfoot in Russia, apart from eyewitness accounts, do you have? Maybe hair samples, bone remains, casts of footprints, photos, audio and video recordings?

— Previously, we had a lot of materials, but there were no reliable and accurate research methods. We gave objects to different authorities, but did not receive back either samples or official results. In general, DNA analysis is an expensive pleasure for us. For example, we have two skulls at our disposal, which have been waiting for verification for 30 years.

We gave objects to different authorities, but did not receive back either samples or official results.

In 2008, Anatoly Derevyanko, an academician from Novosibirsk, found a Bigfoot bone in the Denisova Cave in Altai, which was then studied in Germany for two years. As a result, scientists came to the conclusion that the sample belonged to a species unknown to science. human homo altaencis ("Altai man").

We want to ask a scientist to help our Bigfoot research. After all, at one time, the Novosibirsk academician Alexei Okladnikov was on the commission for the study of Bigfoot and included me in his expedition to Mongolia. There, for a month and a half, I collected information about the Yeti with a group. Anatoly Derevyanko, by the way, was Okladnikov's assistant. I think Novosibirsk scientists are more flexible in this respect. I really look forward to working with them.

Taiga.info: Is there any data on the number of yetis in the world?

There are several thousand of them on all continents except Antarctica. It is difficult to give an exact number.

Taiga.info: Why do you think Bigfoot hide from ordinary people?

- Historically, it so happened that we pushed them into remote places. Having weapons, we are a danger to them, we are their competitors.

Taiga.info: You said that the authorities all over the world don't want to hear anything about the yeti. Why?

- The authorities nod at science, and science is in such an abandoned state that they have no time for Bigfoot. However, there are positive examples. In China, for example, the authorities will spend 1.5 million to establish contacts between people and yetis.

Tayga.info: In 2009, the head of Kuzbass Aman Tuleev, the head of the Tashtagolsky district Vladimir Makuta, the chairman of the Council of People's Deputies of the Kemerovo region Nikolai Shatilov already visited the Azasskaya cave, where, allegedly, traces of a Yeti were found. The governor even allocated funds for the creation of an exposition dedicated to Bigfoot at the Museum of Ethnography and Nature of Mountain Shoria. Does the interest of the regional administration help you in your work?

- The attention of the authorities of the region is an exceptional case. The governor was very supportive of us, information about the expedition spread all over the world. All this caused a revival in the field of hominology. You can discuss the internal motives of officials for a long time, but there is an objective result - help in our study.

Taiga.info: Let's imagine what information about Bigfoot can give science and people in general?

Information will affect our knowledge about the origin of man as such, about his place in the universe

- I will refer to Porshnev's 1966 article in the journal "Problems of Philosophy" entitled "Is it possible now scientific revolution in primatology. Firstly, the information will affect our knowledge about the origin of man as such, about his place in the universe: who is a man, what are his criteria? Porshnev believed that the main criterion for a person is speech, therefore, yeti, as speaking creatures, may well be recognized by people. Secondly, knowledge about hominoids will change our understanding of ancient folk beliefs: about supposedly fabulous inhabitants of the forest, goblin and other characters. Thirdly, it will expand our knowledge of the abilities of the human body, because yetis can live in different climatic conditions without clothes.

Taiga.info: What else have you been doing or are doing besides researching Bigfoot?

- Now I go on expeditions and head a small publishing house "Crypto-Logos". I am an orientalist by profession, so for some time I was deputy editor-in-chief of Asia and Africa Today magazine. For about 10 years he taught the theory and history of the Communist Party, the international communist movement. However, for 45 years now, I have been dealing with the topic of the hominoid more than anything else. In the days of the USSR, I traveled all over the country with lectures about Bigfoot, but now this is somehow not accepted.

Interviewed by Alina Khabirova, photo courtesy of Igor Burtsev

About the fact that Pashkov Evgeny Alexandrovich, a mine excavator driver from the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsky, sent to the International Center for Hominology a video recording of traces and the most humanoid creature, made by a schoolboy Evgeny Anisimov from the Leninsk-Kuznetsky district of the Kemerovo region on January 21, 2013.

As the examination revealed, this creature is the so-called "snowman", or yeti, whose observations in the Kemerovo region have been reported by various eyewitnesses for several years now.

Written by Igor Burtsev, Ph.D. ist. sciences and Bigfoot explorer

Since 2009, as an expert hominologist, I have had the opportunity to visit the Kemerovo region several times, mainly in its southern part - Gornaya Shoria - in order to investigate reports of meetings there with mysterious wild bipeds, known as "Bigfoot", or Yeti ( scientific name - relict hominoid, or shortly - hominoid), and for searches and research on this issue. Of the most reliable reports, I will note the testimony of the former teacher Vladimir Ivanovich Sergeev, a resident of the village of Ust-Kabyrza and a former employee of the Tashtagol administration, Lilia Vasilievna Zenkova. I received her message in March 2011.

In addition to these reports, there were several other testimonies, less vivid.

In addition, in my archive there was one testimony from the Kyshtovsky district of the neighboring Novosibirsk region, dating back to 2004, about a meeting of a "snowman" there by a teenager and an investigation of this case by local hunters and policemen, and one report about a meeting with similar creatures in the city of Leninsk- Kuznetsky in 1942.

During expeditions in Gornaya Shoria in 2009-2010. With the help of a local guide, police officer Valery Topakov (now the head of the administration of the village of Ust-Kabyrza), I managed to find a significant number of unusual man-made structures in the forest on the slopes of Mount Karatag - wood markers, which, in my firm conviction, were created by the hands of wild bipedal inhabitants of the forest. In their appearance, they are similar to similar structures found in other regions of Russia (Kirov, Novgorod, Vologda, Leningrad, Tula, Tver, etc., in the Caucasus), as well as in other countries - the USA, Canada, Australia, in some European countries.

At the beginning of October 2011, the International Scientific and Practical Conference on Hominology was held in Kuzbass, it was attended by scientists and researchers from the USA, Canada, Sweden, Estonia, Russia, including several doctors and candidates of sciences. The program of the conference included two mini-expeditions - to the area of the Azas cave and to the mountain Karatag. The participants of the conference found traces, bedding and hair of presumably hominoids in the Azas cave, as well as several wooden structures made by the hands of "snow people" on the approaches to the cave and on the slopes of Mount Karatag in the Tashtagol region.

On November 6 of the same 2011, the Kungushev family - Yuri and Svetlana with children - found traces of a bipedal creature in the snow on the way to their dacha in Aleksandrovka (near the city of Tashtagol), they also collected hair samples of the alleged "snowman" (yeti). Judging by the footprints, the creature proceeded in a southerly direction.

Photo by Oksana Zhukova (enlarged fragment on the right).

And on January 21, 2013, three schoolchildren aged 11-12 years old, while walking near the village located 30 km from the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsky, saw mysterious footprints in the snow, followed them and suddenly noticed a dark two-legged figure not far behind the bushes. One of them, Evgeny Anisimov, who filmed their hike in the footsteps on a mobile phone camera, managed to film it before it noticed them, sharply ducked to the ground and quickly rushed away from them, into the thickets ... The guys were also scared , turned back, and gave a screech from him. As Zhenya Anisimov later explained, at first it seemed to him that this was some kind of man messing around there, but then he saw that he was big, two meters tall, and shaggy.

Evgeny Pashkov, who sent me the video, said that Zhenya Anisimov, who filmed the footprints and the creature itself, is an orphan. His mother died of cancer, and his father committed suicide... Zhenya has two more younger brothers, aged 8 and 5. They live with their grandmother, Valentina Petrovna Panova, and, of course, they are in need. Therefore, I sent the video to the governor of the region Aman Gumirovich Tuleyev, noting the undoubted value of filming and asking him to encourage the boy financially, given that this is the first more or less reliable and quite visual video footage of the "snowman" in the history of Russia.

When viewing the video, it is clear that the creature was still standing, slightly stooped, arms seemed to hang low. And then, when it noticed the guys, it ducked and abruptly recoiled to the side. When watching the video, our experts had no doubts that it was the Bigfoot that was filmed, it was evident from his posture, reaction, and movements - everything indicated that the shooting was real.

Thus, despite the insinuations of opponents, including foreign ones, the existence on the territory of the Kemerovo region of mysterious inhabitants - "snow people", or yeti - is confirmed by an increasing number of visual evidence, and in particular - the first in the history of Russia quite convincing, albeit low-quality, video footage of one of these creatures.

E. A. Pashkov next to a gnawed tree.

Bigfoot Bait.

Recently, in one of the TV programs, a psychic warned the scientist who keeps the skull of the son of the snow woman Zana: “He brings misfortune. If you want your family to be healthy, bury him.” Did he heed the advice?

N. Larin, Yekaterinburg

- Once the skull was kept in my house on the balcony, then in the laboratory of the institute. Now it lies in a metal cabinet in the garage. I don't think he can harm anyone, - says I. Burtsev. “Besides, only one psychic said about the bad effect of the skull. Others denied it and said that my daughter, who now has health problems, will be fine and the skull has nothing to do with it ...

Although, of course, it is impossible to completely deny its influence. In Azerbaijan, Kabardino-Balkaria and Abkhazia, local residents confessed to me that they had seen Bigfoot, but refused to give details. “We have no right to talk about encounters with these creatures, otherwise our family will suffer,” they said. Before the excavations, the old people warned me: they say, do not dig up the graves - the sky may be indignant.

And, indeed, as soon as we finished, the sun instantly covered with clouds, thunder struck, it started to rain ... When I took the bones to Moscow, my temperature rose to 39-40 degrees. In the Kremlin hospital, they could not make a diagnosis for 3 weeks. Then they wrote that it was mosquito fever, although such a disease was last recorded in the country as early as 1918.

Of course, there were many losses in my life - one of the participants in the excavations died, another died of cancer, my ex-wife died a few years ago, but you should not associate all this with Khvit's skull ...

What was the savage?

Today Burtsev is the country's chief specialist in Bigfoot. Once he finished aviation institute, was an engineer, then went to work in the district committee of the Komsomol. He lived in South Yemen for a year - he created a youth organization there, he worked in Afghanistan for three years - he was a press adviser. Knows Arabic, Persian, English. He would have been engaged only in politics, if in 1965, at the age of 25, he had not gone on an expedition to Kabardino-Balkaria during his vacation. I heard stories of residents there about encounters with hairy creatures and caught fire with the topic for life ... And then I learned about the snow woman Zana, who lived among people in the Abkhazian village of Tkhina from the middle of the 19th century.

Old-timers said that they hunted for a savage for a long time in the forest. Then they caught and named Zana (“zan” in Georgian - “black”). After several donations, she went to a petty prince Edgi Genaba.

Zana was powerful, two meters tall, her entire body was covered with thick dark hair. The savage woman lived on her master's plot - first in a pit surrounded by a palisade, and when she became more tame - in a hut. A few years later, Zana began to respond to her name, obeyed the owner and worked in agricultural work - she easily dragged 50-kilogram sacks of corn to the mill. But she still slept only on the damp earth, ate with her hands and walked naked.

Who "saddled" her?

“In the 70s, I met a long-liver who, as a child, saw Zana. He said that they, the boys, loved to tease her - they threw stones and sticks at her, and she growled in response, - says I. Burtsev. - Then he found a woman who said that the owner of the snow woman, Edgi Genaba, liked to arrange "bachelor parties", during which he soldered Zana with wine and organized competitions - he who "saddled" the savage was awarded a prize. There were daredevils, and Zana began to have children. She dragged the first babies to the spring and washed them in ice water, so they died. Then the inhabitants of Tkhina began to take away her newborns. Who their fathers were is not known.

Zana's children grew up in different families, they were given different surnames. In total, four grew up - two daughters ( Gamas And Kojanar) and two sons ( jonda And hvit).

The descendant of Bigfoot Zana is Khvit. Photo: Frame youtube.com

Most of the rest, the villagers remembered the youngest son of Zana Khvit - he lived in the village longer than other children and died in 1953 at the age of about 70 years. The two-meter giant was very strong, had thick curly hair, plump lips and a violent temper - once during a fight he even lost his arm. Unlike his mother, Hwit was real reasonable person: talked, lived in society, was married three times and left offspring - two daughters and a son.

Local residents knew the burial place of Khvit and showed it to Burtsev - this is how the skeleton of the snow woman's son ended up in the hands of the scientist. Its skull is different from the skull modern people: beak-shaped occiput, rough relief, minimal forehead width, "extra" bone at the occiput.

Whose skull?

A few years later, one and a half meters from Khvit's grave, another burial was discovered - in a wide and short grave were the remains of a woman lying on her side and with bent legs. Her skull with a protruding lower jaw was also very different from a human ...

“Zanin is a skull or not, it is not known for sure,” says I. Burtsev. — In 2006, a geneticist T. Disotell in the laboratory of New York University examined the DNA of the bones of both skulls and came to the conclusion that they belong to close relatives. But the anthropologist S. Bailey questioned the relationship - there are differences in the structure.

In general, initially, hominologists, including myself, believed that Bigfoot are Neanderthals that have survived to this day. But for some reason, neither we nor our opponents have found signs of Neanderthals in their bone remains. In this connection sensational discovery in 2012 made M. Ketchum, director of the DNA Diagnostics Laboratory in Texas. She spent 5 years studying 111 Bigfoot biological samples collected in the US and Canada. Studies have shown that their genetics are very close to human. They are a hybrid of a human and a creature unknown to science. Dr. M. Ketchum even submitted an application to the World Zoobank for the discovery of a new species, calling it Homo sapiens cognatus - a consanguineous person.

Now Burtsev continues to study the history of Zana. He has already found more than 30 descendants of the snow woman, who gave birth to their grandchildren and great-grandchildren ... Some still live in Abkhazia, others have dispersed around the world. One great-great-great-granddaughter of Zana lives in Moscow, the other near Orel, and her daughter recently had a son...

“By the way, the correspondent of “AiF” Savely Kashnitsky, who conducted his own research in Abkhazia, helped find some descendants of the snow woman, the scientist says. - Savely also found Anatolia Bgambu who considered himself the great-grandson of Khvit. In fact, Khvit married a Russian woman Maria for the third time and adopted her two children from a previous marriage. The descendant turned out to be non-blooded... But it was he who recently helped to find the burial places of Zana's granddaughters along the line of her daughter Kodzhanar! This is a real find! For the genetic determination of the species, it is very important to trace the female line. We only had materials from the descendants of Zana's sons, Jonda and Khvit. So, now there is a real chance to find out who Zana really was.