This woman is almost 70 years old, born in the wilderness and has only been 5 times to the city and claims that it makes her sick. In summer you can get here by a 7 day canoe trip, in winter it's virtually inaccessible with anything other than helicopter...
In 1978 some russian geologist spotted the farm from their helicopter and later hiked in to meet them. It was the first contact they had with outsiders for over 40 years and it marked the end of their isolation. Agafia was by that time 34 years old. The Lykovs didn't know that world war two took place.
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