Russia - or to be exact, the Soviet Union - was the first country to probe the snowman riddle on a scientific basis.
In 1958, in the post-Stalinist political thaw, the Soviet Academy of Sciences diverted itself for a time with the exotic and sensational subject of the Himalayan yeti.
As the Academy had received reports of similar creatures in the mountains of Soviet Central Asia, it set up a special commission to collect evidence on the subject and launched a major expedition to the Pamirs to.
Cfz Press In the footsteps of the russian snowman, paperback/dmitri bayanov
