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'We were a big group of four adults and three children  rowing from Ust-Kabyrza to Chuvashka. We arrived at our camp site in the evening and everything went normally.'  Picture: Andrei Alexandrov

His 'sighting' was close to Chernukha mountain, he said. This Yeti - or Big Foot - likewise had.....big feet, some 46 cm in length, or 18 inches.

Russia's best known Yeti hunter Igor Burtsev - head of the Russian International Centre of Hominology, based in Kemerovo region - has previously estimated that as many as 30 Yetis roam this part of Russia. 'We are on the brink of finding the Yeti at long last,' he said in 2011.

Another academic claimed the following year there were 200 in southern Siberia. However, many sightings or finds of 'Yeti hair' or footprints  have been disputed by other experts who say the creature is mythical, and point out no remains have ever been discovered.