Yeti. Tajikistan

In July 1925, in the mountains of Tajikistan, a Red Army detachment under the command of Mikhail Stepanovich Topilsky pursued a gang of Basmachi. Trying to break away from the Red Army, the gang went deeper and deeper into the inaccessible mountainous region. On the 18th day of the chase, when Topilsky's detachment stopped for the night, the sentry noticed three people on the other side of a wide glacial crack.

The commander began to examine the suspicious trio through binoculars. Great was his surprise when he saw not Basmachi, not shepherds, but real wild people. It was a family —a tall and large male, a female and a cub. One of the fighters offered to scare the "hairy men" with a machine gun, but Topilsky forbade shooting. Meanwhile, the male apparently sensed or heard people, he shouted something inarticulately, and the family quickly disappeared into the rocks.

A few days later, the detachment came into contact with the enemy: the Basmachi opened fire from an ambush. However, the force was on the side of the Red Army, the remnants of the gang took refuge in a cave that was blocked by Topilsky's men. The Basmachs were offered to surrender, they had to give an answer in an hour. Suddenly shots rang out in the cave, and almost immediately the ice canopy hanging over the entrance collapsed from the shooting. Only one wounded basmach managed to escape. The prisoner said that when the ultimatum was being discussed, creepy hairy creatures appeared from the far part of the cave. A fierce battle broke out between the basmachs and the snowmen who lived in the cave, and it was interrupted by the collapse.

To find the leader of the gang with the documents, the Red Army soldiers began to disassemble the blockage and came across the corpse of a hairy creature. Fortunately for the researchers of the bigfoot, M. S. Topilsky described it in detail:

"At first glance, it seemed to me that the corpse of a monkey was in front of me: it was covered with fur. But at the same time, the corpse turned out to look like a human. We repeatedly turned the corpse over on its stomach and on its back, measured it. A thorough examination of the corpse made by our doctor excluded the assumption that it was a person. The creature was male, 165-170 centimeters tall. In general, the color of his coat was grayish-brown, the coat was very thick, although without an undercoat. The least hair is on the buttocks, from which the doctor concluded that the creature sits like a man. Most of the hair is on the hips. There is no hair on the knees at all, calloused formations are noticeable. The entire foot and sole are completely hairless, covered with rough brown skin. The shoulders and arms are covered with hair so that their density decreases towards the brush, and there is still hair on the back of the brush, but there is absolutely no hair on the palm

The victim was lying with his eyes open and teeth bared. The eye color is dark. The teeth are very large, even, without strongly protruding canines. There are very powerful protrusions above the eyes — the eyebrows. Strongly protruding cheekbones. The nose is flattened, with a deeply depressed bridge of the nose. The ears are hairless, seem to be more pointed upwards than in humans. The lower jaw is very massive. The victim had a powerful chest, strongly developed muscles. In the structure of the body, we did not notice any deviations from the person."