Agafia Lykova achieved what was previously thought impossible. When Soviet geologists flew over the Siberian taiga in 1978, they spotted a small clearing with a crude dwelling in one of the most ...

Siberia’s most famous hermit, Agafia Lykova, emerged from the Russian wilderness last Wednesday — for the first time in 70 years. According to reports, the reclusive women used an emergency satellite ...

Agafia Lykova lives more than 60 miles from the nearest town in a log cabin near a forest clearing and didn't meet anyone outside her family until her mid-30s Get daily headlines and breaking news ...

Russian Agafia Lykova lives in solitude in a remote part of southern Siberia where her family moved before her birth in 1945 to escape religious persecution under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Her ...

Agafia Lykova, the last remaining member of the Russian Old Believer sect, was airlifted to a hospital for "acute pain" in her leg, The Guardian reports. When she made contact with the "mainland" on ...

A 70-year-old hermit who has spent her life living in exile in the Siberian wilderness has had to be airlifted to hospital. Agafia Lykova lives more than 60 miles away from the nearest town in a log ...