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Dmitri Bayanov

Bigfoot: Fact, Not Fiction

Книга об исследовании российским специалис-тами фильма Роджера Паттерсона (США), запе-чатлевшего женскую особь бигфута (американ-ского снежного человека). Показывается реаль-ность снятого объекта. (На англ. яз.)

Russian hominologists studied the movie in depth and found it to be authentic. As this now means Bigfoot is real, the implications are momentous.

Not all scientists agreed with the verdict. A tiny minority accepted the survival of ape-men and called it "a revolution in primatology". Inevitably they ran into fierce opposition from the scientific establishment and thus began "the struggle for tro�glodytes".

This book is about one phase of this struggle: the battle for the Bigfoot film, shot in America, verified in Russia. It tells how these events came to pass and what followed from them, a story stranger than fiction but based entirely on fact.

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Dmitri Bayanov

In the Footsteps of the Russian Snowman

В книге рассказыается о состоянии исследований проблемы снежного человека в России и странах СНГ, приводятся примеры наблюдений этого существа в разных районах бывшего СССР (На англ. яз.)

Here is the world�s first English-language book on the searches for the elusive relict hominoid (popularly known as the snowman) in the lands of the former Soviet Union. Dmitri Bayanov, the author of the book has combined reports by the most prominent Russian researchers into one volume. His book tells of the birth of hominology in Russia, brought about by the Snowman Commission of the Academy of Sciences and the Pamirs Expedition in 1958, by professor Porshnev's research and the subsequent activities of a permanent hominological seminar at the Darwin Museum in Moscow. The information is given in full detail, soberly discussed, arranged geographically, from the accounts of ancient and medieval travellers to the sighting reports of recent decades. Numerous observations of relict hominoids in the wild or in captivity include a case of interbreeding with humans.

The reader learns of fieldwork in the Caucasus, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Siberia, the European part of Russia and the Russian Far East, including cases of actual encounters with and observations of homins by the investigators. The book sheds light on the historical aspect of the matter, illustrated with pictures of ancient and medieval art. It also provides comparisons between North American and Russian evidence.

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One of the great scientific results of the 20th century was the discovery of relict hominids ("homins", for short), popularly known as "abominable snowman", Yeti, Bigfoot, Sasquatch, etc. Actually, it was a re-discovery by hominologists of what had been known to western naturalists from the ancient times to the middle of the 18th century, when wild bipedal primates were classified by Carl Linnaeus as Homo troglodytes (caveman) or Homo sylvestris (woodman).

As for eastern scholars and rural populations in many parts of the world, they have always been aware of homins, known under diverse popular names.

For science in the West the re-discovery occurred thanks to two major factors: the Himalayan expeditions in search of the Yeti started 50 years ago and the exceptional theories of the Russian professor Boris Porshnev, who, after a gap of 200 years, had restored and validated Homo troglodytes of Linnaeus.

It is true that the existence of relict hominids is not yet officially recognized by the scientific community, which results in two kinds of illusions: most scientists believe that homins do not exist, while most investigators, who admit the creatures' existence, work under the illusion that the discovery has not been made, and many dream to make it. Both opinions are illusory: wild hairy hominids do exist today, and on the agenda is not their discovery but general recognition of their re-discovery in the last century.

Such recognition is expected to make a tremendous impact on science, affecting its over-all strategy and methodology. The event will not come about by itself, it has to be diligently worked for by widely disseminating the already existing knowledge and seeking new tangible evidence.

Among many books on the subject in English, there are two written with the above-mentioned views in mind. They are In the Footsteps of the Russian Snowman and America's Bigfoot: Fact, Not Fiction. U.S. Evidence Verified in Russia, published by Crypto-Logos, Moscow.

Dmitri Bayanov, the author of both books, has been engaged in this investigation since 1964. He has contributed articles on the subject to Current Anthropology, Crypto-zoology, Pursuit, Fortean Times and Bigfoot Co-op published in the West. Bayanov is a founding member of the International Society of Cryptozoology set up in 1982, having served on its Board for 10 years. His colleague Igor Bourtsev, the publisher of the books and the participant of events and investigations, described in the books, has engaged in the search since 1965. He headed search expeditions to the North and South Caucases, the Pamir-Alay mountains, to the northern regions of Russia and to Mongolia.