Sighting in Omsk Province

[From “Komsomol’skaja Pravda”. 2004.]

The Novosibirsk edition of Komsomol’skaja Pravda published an article in November 2004 about observation of hairy beings similar to humans in the Kyshtovka district of the Omsk province, southwest Siberia. On August 22, 2004, the 14-year-old Vitali Korneev claims to have observed such a being as he was guarding cows during the day in open pastures near the village Komarovka. He is quoted as follows: “Not more than 30 meters away from me something moved: not a person and not a bear. He was two meters tall, maybe a bit more; had wide shoulders and was somewhat bent. He was completely covered in brown hair, except for the palms of his hands, which were smooth like those of humans. The eyes were also human, but the nose was like that of an ape: pushed in; only two nostrils were to be seen. I noticed that the being moved smoothly and silently… Not like bears […] ”

According to the authors, the teenager was very frightened and ran back to the village. On the way he met the forester Oleg Timoveev and two neighbors and told them what he had seen. The adults went immediately to the place where the observation happened. Because it had rained the day before, there were tracks. Oleg Timoveev: “There were clear footprints of the stranger on the damp ground - such as I have never seen before. The length - I measured them with a stick - was 31 cm, and the width at the widest point was 11-12 cm, only the heel was narrow, like a human. […] I can say precisely that these were not human tracks. […]”

Andrej Sukhorebrov, the police chief of Kyshtovka district, was also at the place with two colleagues. They filmed the tracks. Sukhorebrov: “I studied the tracks for two hours and one can assume that they really did not originate from an animal, because our colleagues have gone on bear hunts since they were children, and if these were from one of our bears, they would have recognized that immediately. Also, a human can’t leave behind such prints. […] So I am sure, that in the forests of Kyshtovka an unknown being is around…”  The authors mention further observations of such beings in the Kyshtovka district in the last years.*  The village Komarovka lays on the river Tara in an area of forests and marshes, about 200 miles northeast of Omsk. The city, about 50 miles north of the state border between Russia and Kazakhstan, is the center of the province with the same name.

WCSRO, 2006.