Siberian Taiga facts
While investigating facts about Siberian Taiga Fires and Siberian Taiga Fires 2003, I found out little known, but curios details like:
A three year old Russian girl who survived for 11 days in Siberian taiga forest by drinking from a creek and eating berries while being protected by her dog which went to get help after nine days and returned with rescuers.
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Agafya Lykova 73, lived isolated in the Siberian taiga most of her life. She didn't know about World War II until her family died and had to eat her leather shoes to survive during winter.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 7 of the best facts about Siberian Taiga Forest and Siberian Taiga Animals I managed to collect.
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A family of six Russians, escaping religious persecution, spent 42 years living in complete isolation from human society in the Siberian wilderness. Only one woman survives today, and she continues to live in the taiga completely alone and self-sufficient.
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A Russian family lived for 42 years in the Siberian taiga, totally isolated from human contact.
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The largest wildfire in recorded history burned 47 million acres of the Siberian taiga in 2003. Smoke from the fires darkened skies over Japan, as much as 3,000 miles away.
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The Lykov family, who lived completely isolated in the Siberian taiga for 42 years, with no human contact from 1936 to 1978. The last surviving Lykov continues to live 160 miles from the nearest settlement to this day.
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Karp Lykov and his family, who fled into the Siberian taiga prior to WWII. The family, some had been born after they fled, didn't see another human until decades later in 1978 when geologists scouting for oil stumbled upon the camp and slowly became friends with the family.
