Varvara Semennikova

Varvara Semennikova
Born (1890-05-10)May 10, 1890?
Died March 9, 2008(2008-03-09)
(aged 117 years, 304 days)?
Residence Russia
Known for allegedly being one of the world's oldest people

Varvara Konstantinovna Semennikova (née Dyakonova) (May 10, 1890? – March 9, 2008) was a Russian Evenk woman who claimed to be the world's oldest person since August 2007. However, her age has not been authenticated internationally by any source including Guinness World Records or the Gerontology Research Group.

If this claim were verified, she would have been the oldest living person, as well as the fourth-oldest person in history. The only agency that has agreed with her age is the National Archive of Yakutia.[1]

She married Alexei Semennikov, a hunter 27 years her junior,[2] in the mid-to-late 1940s. It was one of two of her marriages from which she had two children who died in their youth. At the age of 58, she adopted an eight-month-old girl, from which she had several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ Russian woman may dispute 'oldest known person' title with US citizen
  2. ↑ 117-old woman from Russia loves eating raw fish and drinking champagne
  3. ↑ 117-Year-Old Sakha Woman Was Believed World's Oldest


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