If you cross a monkey with a man what happens. Interspecies sex in Soviet science

There is a hypothesis that Bigfoot (at least in a number of habitats) is neither a relict hominoid that has survived to this day, nor an ape-like ancestor that got into the modern world along the corridors of time, nor an alien from outer space, but is a product of secret genetic experiments on crossing man and monkey...

Fix-idea of ​​the famous professor

Human-monkey crossing experiments were actually carried out in the 20th century and may still be carried out today. The most interesting thing is that the priority in these ambiguous, to put it mildly, from the point of view of ethics and morality, experiments turned out to be our country, and all this is due to the research of Professor Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov. This scientist at the beginning of the twentieth century was considered a world-renowned authority in the field of breeding and crossing various animals.

Back at the end of the 19th century, Ilya Ivanovich decided to devote his life to a completely new problem for science, and in a few years he achieved outstanding results. His works on artificial insemination and crossbreeding of mammals have been translated into many languages ​​of the world and still have not lost their significance. In 1901, the scientist created the world's first center for artificial insemination of trotters, in which they tried to cross horses with zebras. And already after the revolution, in the early 20s, according to the methods of Professor Ivanov and with his direct participation, it was possible to breed a musk ox. This unique animal combined the unpretentiousness in food and the endurance of one parent with the incredible strength of the other. Hybrids of other animals also appeared - deer bull, derivatives of a white mouse with a guinea pig, a hare and a rabbit, a hare and a cat ...

However, in not a single encyclopedia, which briefly talks about the scientific achievements of the scientist, you will find a mention of research, which for Ilya Ivanovich became the main business of his life. The world famous scientist was literally obsessed with the idea of ​​crossing a man with a monkey ...

Bolsheviks give green light to experiments

With this idea, Ivanov aroused the keenest interest among foreign scientists, speaking at scientific symposiums, his Western colleagues gasped and gasped, but were afraid to even touch such a topic with one finger. Public opinion in the West was extremely negative about such blasphemous experiments on God's creatures, and even more so the creation of various monsters based on humans.

Perhaps because of this, Ilya Ivanovich did not emigrate to the West, he was well aware that such experiments would simply be banned there. But the new Soviet government really liked to destroy the foundations of Western morality, the scientist could only interest the Bolshevik bosses in his research. And Ivanov succeeded!

The energy and assertiveness of the scientist are simply amazing. To persuade him to allocate considerable funds in times of devastation, while not hiding that he intends to conduct experiments not in the USSR, but in Africa! Yes, yes, it was in Africa, because Ivanov believed that not only great apes lived there in unlimited numbers, but also natives, whom the scientist intended to “make happy” with the seminal fluid of gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans.

His memorandum to Lunacharsky, People's Commissar of Education, contains not only a request to allocate money for research, but also contains a certain element of blackmail - do not give money, the Soviet Union will outstrip the Western powers in this area. In his report, Ivanov wrote:

“The method of artificial insemination makes it possible to get closer to the question of the origin of man. At present, only money is lacking to set up these experiments. I assume that the Soviet government could, in the interests of science, meet halfway and issue a significant part of this amount. It would be a shame if this work took place without the participation of the USSR.

On May 27, 1925, the professor also sent a memorandum to the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR A.I. Rykov:

“My work with the method of artificial insemination of mammals led me to the idea: to experiment with crossing by artificial insemination between different species of great apes, as well as between the latter and man. These experiments can provide extremely important facts for clarifying the question of the origin of man. Getting hybrids between different anthropoid species is more than likely. The birth of a hybrid form between a human and an anthropoid is less likely, but its possibility is far from excluded. My attempts in pre-revolutionary times to establish work in this direction were not successful. On the one hand, religious prejudices interfered, on the other hand, the organization of these experiments required an exceptional environment and significant funds ... "

Well, how could the Bolsheviks refuse the professor, because they not only spit on religious prejudices, but also denied religion itself! True, at first Ivanov was still tormented by his fellow scientists who had survived in the whirlwind of the revolution. The consultant of Glavnauki, in his response to the scientific concept of the alleged research of the professor, directly wrote that the intraspecific differences of great apes would not allow to get offspring when crossing, moreover, artificial insemination between a monkey and a person would not give any results. Moreover, in his review, the expert did not fail to notice the legal uncertainty of such experiments and possible criminal prosecutions by the French administration of Guinea.

Ivanov responded to this review by attracting Academician Otto Schmidt to his side. The authoritative commission created under his auspices not only recognized the importance of the professor's ideas, but also noted their role in the fight against idealism.

The Bolshevik leadership gave in and allocated money. As for the negative review of the expert, they were treated with caution at the top, and then they completely ignored it: they thought maybe it was written by a pest who wanted to screw up a case so important for the revolutionary worldview ...

African misadventures

Inspired, Ilya Ivanovich, with his son and colleagues, went to Guinea in 1926, where the leadership of the Pasteur Institute allowed him to work in his research laboratory. However, what seemed easy in the Land of the Soviets turned into an intractable problem on African soil - Ivanov could not get the monkeys needed for experiments ... There were no adult chimpanzees in the nursery of the laboratory, but there were more than thirty cubs. Of course, fertilizing them did not make sense ...

Adult chimpanzees frolic in the jungle, but the natives were afraid to catch them. The monkeys had steel muscles, impressive teeth and were extremely aggressive. The only thing that local hunters dared to do was to shoot an adult for the sake of meat and skin.

After a short visit to Paris, Ivanov returned to Guinea with his son. It was impossible for the professor to retreat, he decided to take up catching adult chimpanzees on his own with his son. The local hunters, whom he took as his assistants, turned out to be cowardly. “At the most critical moment,” Ilya Ivanovich complained, “the blacks scatter in panic, leaving me and my son to find a way out.” As a result of such anti-heroic behavior of the Africans, during another attempt to catch the monkeys, the professor's son ended up in the hospital ... The local "brave men" were also unlucky: one of them died, two were severely maimed.

I had to greatly increase the premiums for the capture of adult chimpanzees. Having found out about this, the most experienced and desperate hunters came from distant places, and it was they who got several adults for the scientist.

Black beauties did not want a baby from a monkey ...

From Africa, Ivanov wrote to Moscow acquaintances: “The work is in full swing. It turns out not all of what was planned, but there is no time to lose heart ... It is necessary not only to increase the number of experiments on artificial insemination of chimpanzees and gorillas with human sperm, but also to conduct experiments on backcrossing. I think that women who want to undergo experience are incomparably easier to find in Europe than in Africa "...

Yes, the professor had an embarrassment with African women: black beauties did not want to get pregnant from a monkey for any money. Perhaps Ivanov was going to impregnate local ladies without revealing to them the essence of the experiment, but the local authorities opposed such a formulation of the issue. “The governor,” wrote the professor, “without whose knowledge the experiments could not be carried out in the hospital, declared that he did not object in principle, provided that the experiments were carried out with the consent of the patients. This condition made the setting up of these experiments, mostly already established, extremely difficult. That is why I attach great importance to sending pygmies from Gabon, since there should be no such difficulties with them.

Why Ivanov thought that everything would go smoothly with the pygmies, one can only guess. Maybe he thought that in terms of their development, growth and other parameters, they are closest to monkeys? Here it smacks of a kind of racism ... However, the pygmies were never sent to him. Ilya Ivanovich was satisfied with the fact that in the winter of 1927 he fertilized all the female monkeys he got with human seed. Who at the same time acted as a sperm donor, history is silent.

The hybrid man loves sex and is promiscuous

In the summer of 1927 it was time to return home. Ivanov first took 13 fertilized monkeys to Marseilles, two monkeys did not survive this segment of the journey. In France, the scientist wanted to temporarily attach his pupils to the Pasteur Institute, his heart was fooling around, there was a delay on the way. Alas, the People's Commissariat of Health refused to pay for the "accommodation" of monkeys at the institute. As a result, the animals ended up in very extreme conditions and slowly parted with life in Marseille, while Ivanov treated his heart in Paris. Later, the primates were sent to Sukhumi, but three months later, the monkeys obtained with such difficulty died. At autopsy, pregnancy in females was not found.

In general, Professor Ivanov's African "business trip" could be considered unsuccessful, if not a failure, which the officials did. Surprisingly, the scientist himself held a completely different opinion! Maybe there is some secret here? In one of his letters, Ivanov wrote:

“The hybrid man, who corresponds to anthropoids, grows faster from birth than an ordinary man, gains incredible strength by the age of three or four, is much less sensitive to pain, is illegible in food, prefers sexual pleasures of all amusements. Its most important advantage over living beings, including humans, is ease of management and impeccable obedience. The possibilities of use are endless - from working in wet faces to soldiering."

What is it - the professor's assumptions or did he observe a real hybrid in Africa? After all, male gorillas sometimes kidnap African women and use them instead of their females, so to speak, for their intended purpose ... Did Ivanov manage to find the fruit of such "exotic love"?

It would seem that after the failure of the African expedition, Ilya Ivanovich could well have been slapped as a pest for the useless waste of people's money, but the professor is allowed to continue working and even open the Sukhumi monkey house for this purpose. The works of the scientist are classified, but a number of publications about them nevertheless leaked into the Soviet press.

Revolutionary enthusiasm on the altar of science

An interesting document was found in the archives. An excerpt from it was cited in one of his publications by journalist Maxim Yablokov. Let's get to know him.

“In response to publications in newspapers, some comrades (men and women) turned to the state monkey with a request to use them in experiments indicating the evolutionary origin of man. They offered themselves for experiments with monkeys, not demanding payment, but solely for the sake of science and enlightenment of fellow citizens prone to religious ignorance ... But because of the great power of monkeys, it is necessary to allow people to them with great care. A few days ago, one of the women entered the outbuilding where the chimpanzees lived, and one grabbed her, trying to strangle her. It was possible to free her only with the help of several men who came to the rescue in time.”

An attempt to publish at least something in the scientific journals of the USSR was unsuccessful, then Ilya Ivanovich tried to transfer his notes to foreign colleagues at the Pasteur Institute. The professor, apparently, did not believe that such an act was a crime, but the OGPU thought otherwise ... According to some sources, Ivanov and several other leading employees of the nursery were arrested and shot in 1932 for treason, according to others, the professor was arrested in 1931 and given he was five years in the camps, a year later he died in Kazakhstan. One thing is known for sure - in 1932, Professor Ivanov died.

People or animals?

There is no documented evidence that experiments on crossing monkeys with humans were continued in the USSR, although this cannot be completely ruled out. But there is no reason to believe that such experiments were not carried out later in other countries. In 1952, the French writer Vercors wrote the book People or Animals?, which dealt with the moral and ethical side of such experiments. I dare to offer you small fragments from this extremely curious work.

“... The corpse was quite tiny. And it is understandable, therefore, that Dr. Higgins, who over his many years of practice has seen so many different corpses - both large and small - looking at this one, at first was not even surprised at all. He leaned over the cradle only for a moment, and then, straightening up, looked at Douglas, and his face assumed, if I may say so, a professional expression. There was an eloquent silence for several minutes, then the doctor's thick mustache moved, and he said:

I'm afraid you called me too late...

"You don't quite understand me," Doug replied. “I gave him a large dose of strychnine.

The doctor backed away, knocked over a chair, tried to catch it, and could not keep back a rather stupid exclamation:

But this is murder!

... The inspector turned out to be a very kind, well-mannered and shy fair-haired young man. He interrogated Douglas gently and even respectfully. After asking him a few questions to identify the perpetrator, he asked:

- Are you the father of the child?

Is the child's mother here too?

“No… She was taken back to the zoo yesterday… You see, his mother is not actually a woman. This is a female of the species Paranthropos Erectus.

The doctor and the inspector stood silent for a minute, staring blankly at Doug.

After a moment's hesitation, the doctor approached the cradle with a determined step, threw back the blanket from the little body, and unfolded the swaddling clothes.

— Damn it! All he could say was...

Once more carefully examining the child, he turned his full astonishment to his father.

It's still a monkey. She has four arms,” he said with obvious relief.

I will leave these fragments without comment, I think everything is clear here anyway. After World War II, which swept through people's lives like a fiery whirlwind, the Western public was no longer up to protests against experiments with some monkeys, even though these studies looked immoral. Moral standards were shaken in those years, and this circumstance did not fail to take advantage of scientists obsessed with the idea of ​​​​creating new, unseen on earth, "superbeings". Without a doubt, the military also showed close interest in these works. It is known that experiments on obtaining a hybrid of a man with a monkey were carried out in the USA. However, this is a topic for a separate discussion.

According to an outstanding Belgian scientist, President of the International Society of Cryptozoologists Bernard Euvelmans, in the Siberian camps of the Gulag, experiments were carried out on the artificial insemination of Altai women with the sperm of gorilla males, specially obtained in Rwanda and Burundi. The resulting viable offspring, possessing great physical strength, worked in the salt mines.

Bernard Euvelmans, in his book “The Riddle of the Frozen Man,” reports a friend (who can be trusted) that in 1952-1953, “she met a Russian doctor who had escaped from the Siberian camps at a friend’s house. Eskulap said that he was arrested for failing to comply with the order to impregnate Mongolian women with gorilla sperm. The experiments were carried out in the hospital administration of the Gulag. The Russians received a race of ape-men 1.8 m tall, covered with wool. They work in the salt mines, have Herculean strength, and work almost without rest. They grow faster than humans, and therefore quickly become fit for work. Their only drawback is their inability to reproduce. But researchers are successfully working in this direction.”

But this is not a sensation. Back in 1927, an article appeared in the émigré newspaper Russkoye Vremya about the experiments of a certain Soviet professor Ivanov in crossing a man with a monkey.

At that time, this incredible message only entertained readers and nothing more.

However, the funds of the State Archives of the Russian Federation contain a unique document compiled by Professor I.I. Ivanov. This is a draft resolution of the commission established on May 19, 1929 under the scientific department of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.

The document says:

“Joining the decision of the Physics and Mathematics Department of the All-Union Academy of Sciences of September 30, 1925 regarding the great scientific significance of the planned prof. I. I. Ivanov experiments on interspecific hybridization on anthropoids, the commission believes that:

1) experiments on interspecific hybridization on anthropoids should be continued by prof. Ivanov in the Sukhumi monkey nursery, both between individual species of monkeys, and between monkeys and humans;

2) the experiments must be furnished with all the necessary precautions and proceed in conditions of strict isolation of women, excluding the possibility of natural insemination;

3) experiments should be carried out on the largest possible number of women ... "

African temperament didn't work

Either there were not enough monkeys in the Sukhumi Reserve, or Soviet women were brought up “wrongly”, but the innovative professor had problems with experimental “insemination”. And this despite the fact that the mentioned high commission approved his undertaking. What to do? The answer arose in the head of the researcher by itself: to go to Africa. It's full of monkeys and the women are more temperamental...

It's decided. I. I. Ivanov approached the government with the idea and received financial support. In the difficult years of general collectivization, the state allocated him almost 30 thousand dollars for an expedition to Guinea.

In Africa, the experimenter dreamed, it would be possible to inseminate aboriginal females with the sperm of male chimpanzees without difficulty. But for some reason, local ladies also refused the role of surrogate mothers. The natives, even for big money, did not agree to “cross” with monkeys, which stopped scientific progress.

Having failed a second time, Professor Ivanov did not lose heart. He agreed with the doctor to conduct similar experiments in a local hospital. The governor did not seem to object to the experiments, but stated that they could only be carried out with the consent of the women.

And again, a complete failure: the dark-skinned representatives of the fair sex flatly refused to conceive and bear bastards. However, the stubborn researcher did not give up: "I attach great importance to sending pygmies from Rabon, since the above problems should not arise with them ..." - I. I. Ivanov wrote in his report.

Whether the energetic scientist crossed monkeys and pygmies is unknown. Traces of his activities in Africa were lost. The consequences of the experiments in the Sukhum Reserve also remained unknown. Either they were discontinued due to lack of results, or, conversely, because of these very results, they were strictly classified.

Something About Rumors

In 1929, the expedition of Professor V. Vvedensky to the Himalayas witnessed the birth of a female Bigfoot. The baby was "adopted" by one of the researchers. The boy grew up healthy. However, he was extremely unattractive in appearance - round-shouldered, low-browed, very hairy. The time has come, and he was sent to elementary school. He studied poorly, and after a while he left its walls and got a job as a loader.

The boy had great physical strength. In fairness, it should be noted that he had to go to the laborers not of his own free will, but because in 1938 his adoptive father, as an "enemy of the people", was sent to a concentration camp, where he died. The son of the "snow woman" died at a young age of an unknown cause. Scientific notes compiled about him by an educator are allegedly kept in the Academy of Sciences under the heading "secret" ...

In the 1960s in the Caucasus, the famous scientist Boris. Porshnev heard from the old-timers a story about the fate of the captured and tamed "snow woman" Zana. She lived for many years with the local landowner Edgi Genabu, possessed remarkable strength, performed hard work and ... gave birth to children. Apparently, these were the offspring of her owner, because Zana was buried in the village of Tkhina, Ochamchira district, at the family cemetery of the landowner at the end of the 19th century.

In 1964, the scientist met with the two grandchildren of this woman, who had incredible strength and worked in the mines in Tkvarcheli. They had darkish skin and a softened Negroid appearance. One of the descendants named Shalikua could hold a chair with a seated person in his teeth and dance at the same time!

If it has already turned out to be possible for a modern man and a “wild” (one might say, primitive) to interbreed, then why not allow the appearance of a hybrid of man and ape?

Khvit, son of Zana. On the right photo is another of her sons or grandsons.

Other descendants of Zana: 1 - daughter Natalia; 2, 3, 4 - grandchildren - Raisa, Shaliko, Tatyana (children of Khvit); 5 - great-grandson Robert (son of Raisa).

In 1998, British surgeons implanted a three-week-old fetus from a woman who died in a car accident into the uterus of a female chimpanzee. At the seventh month of pregnancy, the surrogate mother had a caesarean section. The baby was placed in a pressure chamber, where he developed normally. And this is not the first attempt by scientists to transplant a human embryo into an animal.

It is not far from here to the crossing of species. It is known that the New York biologist Stuart Newman has already created and is trying to patent the technology for the production of beastmen, which he calls chimeras. A scientist claims to have found a way to combine human and animal genes...

"Frozen"

In addition, in 1968 it became known that for more than a year and a half a specially equipped van of a certain Frank Hansen traveled around America. At cattle fairs, an enterprising Yankee (a former military pilot) showed his exhibit to the curious for $ 1.75.

In the middle of the motorized cart stood a metal box (like a coffin) with a four-layer glass lid. Inside, in a layer of ice, lay the body of a large man, overgrown with dark brown hair. A special refrigeration device maintained the required temperature.

Yeti Hansen

Upon learning of this, the already mentioned Bernard Avrlmans, together with his friend, the famous American explorer, zoologist writer Ivan Sanderson, rushed to Minnesota, where Frank Hansen lived.

For three days, scientists examined the corpse of an unknown creature, soldered into ice: they examined, sketched, shone through a flashlight, measured with a goniometer, photographed, recorded. They wanted to X-ray the “exhibit” and even unfreeze it for further study. But Hansen, having learned who they were, did not allow this, referring to the prohibition of the real owner of the "frozen".

Scientists separately described the "exhibit" in order to preserve information about it for science. Here is a "portrait" of the phenomenon. The body is massive. Its weight is about 115 kg. The body does not narrow at the waist, but only at the hips. The width of the chest is large in relation to the length of the body. The ratio of the length of the arms and legs, apparently, corresponds to human proportions ... But the sizes and proportions of the hands differ sharply from the human norm ... The neck is unusually short. The lower jaw is massive, wide and without a chin protrusion.

The slit of the mouth is wider than that of a human, but there are almost no lips ... Rough yellow nails of a human type. The genital organs of the human, not the monkey type, are not large. The anatomical details of the structure of the knees and feet reliably prove that this creature is upright. Separate details indicate that it walked on the inside of the foot, and not on the outside, as monkeys do. This exactly matches the footprint of a Quaternary ape-man found in Hungary, as well as the footprints of living paleoanthropes (fossil people) in the Tien Shan and the Caucasus.

Ends in the water

After learning about the enormous value of his unusual exhibit, Hansen claimed through Saga magazine that he himself killed this monster in Minnesota with an 8-millimeter Mauser gun while hunting for a fallow deer. Later, he changed his testimony and stated that the interview with him could not be used against him (as a charge of murder), since he gave information without oath and completely free of charge.

He promised to give the exhibit for scientific research if the authorities pardon those people who violated the federal law on the importation of goods of this kind into the country and handed over the monster to him. Otherwise, he threatened to drown the ape-man in the ocean...

And he drowned, replacing the corpse with a dummy. Obviously, he learned about the impending confiscation of the "contraband cargo." According to information leaked to the press, the "frozen" was delivered through Hong Kong either from Siberia or from Kamchatka.

Thus, it is possible that Hansen's "exhibit" was the result of the monstrous experiments carried out in the Siberian camps of the Gulag. So, maybe the "Bigfoot", found on the territory of our country, is also a Gulag hybrid? ..

"Snow" child

In the early 1990s, reports appeared in the US press about the birth of a Bigfoot child by American Katya Martin.

In 1987, a young woman was climbing in the Rainer Mountains and met a 2-meter Bigfoot there. They spent several days together, and then on April 28, 1988, Katya had a son, whose head and neck were completely covered with dark curly hair.

Doctors conducted research and found that the genetic basis of the boy is only partially human.

- The son is strong and hairy - like his father, and from me he has artistic and mathematical abilities. I am very proud of him,” said the mother of an unusual child. He knows that his father is Bigfoot.

Katya herself went several times to the same mountains with the hope of meeting the father of her child...

According to an outstanding Belgian scientist, President of the International Society of Cryptozoologists Bernard Euvelmans, in the Siberian camps of the Gulag, experiments were carried out on the artificial insemination of Altai women with the sperm of gorilla males, specially obtained in Rwanda and Burundi. The resulting viable offspring, possessing great physical strength, worked in the salt mines.

Bernard Euvelmans, in his book “The Riddle of the Frozen Man,” reports a friend (who can be trusted) that in 1952-1953, “she met a Russian doctor who had escaped from the Siberian camps at a friend’s house. Eskulap said that he was arrested for failing to comply with the order to impregnate Mongolian women with gorilla sperm. The experiments were carried out in the hospital administration of the Gulag. The Russians received a race of ape-men 1.8 m tall, covered with wool. They work in the salt mines, have Herculean strength, and work almost without rest. They grow faster than humans, and therefore quickly become fit for work. Their only drawback is their inability to reproduce. But researchers are successfully working in this direction.”

But this is not a sensation. Back in 1927, an article appeared in the émigré newspaper Russkoye Vremya about the experiments of a certain Soviet professor Ivanov in crossing a man with a monkey.

At that time, this incredible message only entertained readers and nothing more.

However, the funds of the State Archives of the Russian Federation contain a unique document compiled by Professor I.I. Ivanov. This is a draft resolution of the commission established on May 19, 1929 under the scientific department of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.

The document says:

“Joining the decision of the Physics and Mathematics Department of the All-Union Academy of Sciences of September 30, 1925 regarding the great scientific significance of the planned prof. I. I. Ivanov experiments on interspecific hybridization on anthropoids, the commission believes that:

1) experiments on interspecific hybridization on anthropoids should be continued by prof. Ivanov in the Sukhumi monkey nursery, both between individual species of monkeys, and between monkeys and humans;

2) the experiments must be furnished with all the necessary precautions and proceed in conditions of strict isolation of women, excluding the possibility of natural insemination;

3) experiments should be carried out on the largest possible number of women ... "

African temperament didn't work

Either there were not enough monkeys in the Sukhumi Reserve, or Soviet women were brought up “wrongly”, but the innovative professor had problems with experimental “insemination”. And this despite the fact that the mentioned high commission approved his undertaking. What to do? The answer arose in the head of the researcher by itself: to go to Africa. It's full of monkeys and the women are more temperamental...

It's decided. I. I. Ivanov approached the government with the idea and received financial support. In the difficult years of general collectivization, the state allocated him almost 30 thousand dollars for an expedition to Guinea.

In Africa, the experimenter dreamed, it would be possible to inseminate aboriginal females with the sperm of male chimpanzees without difficulty. But for some reason, local ladies also refused the role of surrogate mothers. The natives, even for big money, did not agree to “cross” with monkeys, which stopped scientific progress.

Having failed a second time, Professor Ivanov did not lose heart. He agreed with the doctor to conduct similar experiments in a local hospital. The governor did not seem to object to the experiments, but stated that they could only be carried out with the consent of the women.

And again, a complete failure: the dark-skinned representatives of the fair sex flatly refused to conceive and bear bastards. However, the stubborn researcher did not give up: "I attach great importance to sending pygmies from Rabon, since the above problems should not arise with them ..." - I. I. Ivanov wrote in his report.

Whether the energetic scientist crossed monkeys and pygmies is unknown. Traces of his activities in Africa were lost. The consequences of the experiments in the Sukhum Reserve also remained unknown. Either they were discontinued due to lack of results, or, conversely, because of these very results, they were strictly classified.

Something About Rumors

In 1929, the expedition of Professor V. Vvedensky to the Himalayas witnessed the birth of a female Bigfoot. The baby was "adopted" by one of the researchers. The boy grew up healthy. However, he was extremely unattractive in appearance - round-shouldered, low-browed, very hairy. The time has come, and he was sent to elementary school. He studied poorly, and after a while he left its walls and got a job as a loader.

The boy had great physical strength. In fairness, it should be noted that he had to go to the laborers not of his own free will, but because in 1938 his adoptive father, as an "enemy of the people", was sent to a concentration camp, where he died. The son of the "snow woman" died at a young age of an unknown cause. Scientific notes compiled about him by an educator are allegedly kept in the Academy of Sciences under the heading "secret" ...

In the 1960s in the Caucasus, the famous scientist Boris. Porshnev heard from the old-timers a story about the fate of the captured and tamed "snow woman" Zana. She lived for many years with the local landowner Edgi Genabu, possessed remarkable strength, performed hard work and ... gave birth to children. Apparently, these were the offspring of her owner, because Zana was buried in the village of Tkhina, Ochamchira district, at the family cemetery of the landowner at the end of the 19th century.

In 1964, the scientist met with the two grandchildren of this woman, who had incredible strength and worked in the mines in Tkvarcheli. They had darkish skin and a softened Negroid appearance. One of the descendants named Shalikua could hold a chair with a seated person in his teeth and dance at the same time!

If it has already turned out to be possible for a modern man and a “wild” (one might say, primitive) to interbreed, then why not allow the appearance of a hybrid of man and ape?

Khvit, son of Zana. On the right photo is another of her sons or grandsons.

Other descendants of Zana: 1 - daughter Natalia; 2, 3, 4 - grandchildren - Raisa, Shaliko, Tatyana (children of Khvit); 5 - great-grandson Robert (son of Raisa).

In 1998, British surgeons implanted a three-week-old fetus from a woman who died in a car accident into the uterus of a female chimpanzee. At the seventh month of pregnancy, the surrogate mother had a caesarean section. The baby was placed in a pressure chamber, where he developed normally. And this is not the first attempt by scientists to transplant a human embryo into an animal.

It is not far from here to the crossing of species. It is known that the New York biologist Stuart Newman has already created and is trying to patent the technology for the production of beastmen, which he calls chimeras. A scientist claims to have found a way to combine human and animal genes...

"Frozen"

In addition, in 1968 it became known that for more than a year and a half a specially equipped van of a certain Frank Hansen traveled around America. At cattle fairs, an enterprising Yankee (a former military pilot) showed his exhibit to the curious for $ 1.75.

In the middle of the motorized cart stood a metal box (like a coffin) with a four-layer glass lid. Inside, in a layer of ice, lay the body of a large man, overgrown with dark brown hair. A special refrigeration device maintained the required temperature.

Yeti Hansen

Upon learning of this, the already mentioned Bernard Avrlmans, together with his friend, the famous American explorer, zoologist writer Ivan Sanderson, rushed to Minnesota, where Frank Hansen lived.

For three days, scientists examined the corpse of an unknown creature, soldered into ice: they examined, sketched, shone through a flashlight, measured with a goniometer, photographed, recorded. They wanted to X-ray the “exhibit” and even unfreeze it for further study. But Hansen, having learned who they were, did not allow this, referring to the prohibition of the real owner of the "frozen".

Scientists separately described the "exhibit" in order to preserve information about it for science. Here is a "portrait" of the phenomenon. The body is massive. Its weight is about 115 kg. The body does not narrow at the waist, but only at the hips. The width of the chest is large in relation to the length of the body. The ratio of the length of the arms and legs, apparently, corresponds to human proportions ... But the sizes and proportions of the hands differ sharply from the human norm ... The neck is unusually short. The lower jaw is massive, wide and without a chin protrusion.

The slit of the mouth is wider than that of a human, but there are almost no lips ... Rough yellow nails of a human type. The genital organs of the human, not the monkey type, are not large. The anatomical details of the structure of the knees and feet reliably prove that this creature is upright. Separate details indicate that it walked on the inside of the foot, and not on the outside, as monkeys do. This exactly matches the footprint of a Quaternary ape-man found in Hungary, as well as the footprints of living paleoanthropes (fossil people) in the Tien Shan and the Caucasus.

Ends in the water

After learning about the enormous value of his unusual exhibit, Hansen claimed through Saga magazine that he himself killed this monster in Minnesota with an 8-millimeter Mauser gun while hunting for a fallow deer. Later, he changed his testimony and stated that the interview with him could not be used against him (as a charge of murder), since he gave information without oath and completely free of charge.

He promised to give the exhibit for scientific research if the authorities pardon those people who violated the federal law on the importation of goods of this kind into the country and handed over the monster to him. Otherwise, he threatened to drown the ape-man in the ocean...

And he drowned, replacing the corpse with a dummy. Obviously, he learned about the impending confiscation of the "contraband cargo." According to information leaked to the press, the "frozen" was delivered through Hong Kong either from Siberia or from Kamchatka.

Thus, it is possible that Hansen's "exhibit" was the result of the monstrous experiments carried out in the Siberian camps of the Gulag. So, maybe the "Bigfoot", found on the territory of our country, is also a Gulag hybrid? ..

"Snow" child

In the early 1990s, reports appeared in the US press about the birth of a Bigfoot child by American Katya Martin.

In 1987, a young woman was climbing in the Rainer Mountains and met a 2-meter Bigfoot there. They spent several days together, and then on April 28, 1988, Katya had a son, whose head and neck were completely covered with dark curly hair.

Doctors conducted research and found that the genetic basis of the boy is only partially human.

- The son is strong and hairy - like his father, and from me he has artistic and mathematical abilities. I am very proud of him,” said the mother of an unusual child. He knows that his father is Bigfoot.

Katya herself went several times to the same mountains with the hope of meeting the father of her child...

In the 1920s - 30s. the pundit Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov toyed with the "revolutionary" idea of ​​crossing a man with a monkey. The encyclopedia reports about him: “Ivanov Il. Iv. (1870 - 1932), Soviet animal biologist. Developed the theoretical foundations and methods of artificial insemination and crossbreeding of animals. In the early 20s. according to the methods of Ilya Ivanovich and with his direct participation, it was possible to breed a musk ox. The animal combined the unpretentiousness in food and the endurance of one parent with the incredible strength of the other. A persistent rumor flowed around Moscow, as if Ivanov had decided to make a “hybrid man” out of different animals. And in the scientific community, they started talking about the fact that, they say, Ivanov was accepted by People's Commissars Lunacharsky and Tsyurupa, had a long conversation with him. For a long time, no one could confirm the fact of such a conversation, until the historian-researcher N.N. Nevdolin did not find confirmation in the archives recently - yes, they met. Moreover, the people's commissars showed great interest in the experiments "due to their anti-religious orientation" - the conversation lasted about 4 hours! But the transcript was not kept, there was only a protocol-summary for a quarter of a typewritten page.

Somewhere in West Africa

Next - the most interesting. Two days later, the Glavnauka of the RSFSR informed all Moscow newspapers: Ivanov I.I. strongly rejected. Funding was also publicly denied. But here's the mystery. A few days later, the same newspapers, followed by provincial publications, published an appeal by Ilya Ivanovich. It turns out that he has decided to move with his entire laboratory to West Africa and calls on volunteers to follow him. Moreover, they were not required to make any monetary contributions or purchase equipment at their own expense.

Why West Africa? Ivanov did not hide in his appeal the main goal - to create a man-gorilla. Why take monkeys across three lands, if it's easier to go to them? Moreover, Ivanov, like some of his fellow biologists, knew: when attacking African villages in herds, gorillas never kill women, they accept them into their communities as, pardon the naturalism, full-fledged wives with all the ensuing consequences. -actions ... It was even said that hybrid children appear from these "marriages".

Already from Africa, Ivanov wrote to friends: “The work is in full swing. Not everything comes out as planned, but there is no time to lose heart... It is necessary not only to increase the number of experiments on artificial insemination of chimpanzees and gorillas with human sperm, but also to conduct experiments on backcrossing...”.

However, Ivanov's expedition was officially declared a failure. However, the professor himself seemed to have a different opinion. In a letter to the same Moscow friends (in the 1930s they all disappeared without a trace), Ilya Ivanovich reports: incredible strength, much less sensitive to pain, illegible in food, prefers sexual pleasures of all amusements. Its most important advantage over living beings, including humans, is ease of management and impeccable obedience. The possibilities of use are endless - from working in damp faces to soldiering.

Is that how they write about failure? In addition, the experiments of I.I. Ivanov since 1926 were taken under the control of the NKVD, just as in the aftermath of work on the creation of nuclear weapons. Nobody has seen the archives of this organization and its successors in full.

Michurin from zoology"?

About forty years ago, the scientific community of the West ignored the message of the Belgian biologist Bernard Euvelmans, who described a “man” frozen into an ice block that he saw at a fair in the USA. Meanwhile, the description of the Belgian almost word for word coincides with the lines of I.I. Ivanova. Having caught fire on the topic and knowing about the experiments of the Russian "Michurin from Zoology", Euvelmans began to search for possible witnesses. And I found in France and the USA several emigrants who had fled from the USSR abroad and spent many years in Soviet concentration camps. They claimed that they were "pulling out the deadline" - some for refusing to inseminate female gorillas and chimpanzees in the most natural way, some for fundamentally disagreeing to work with Ivanov. In their opinion, the USSR was in full swing creating human hybrids with primates. The experiments, it seems, were carried out in the hospital department of the Gulag. The Russians, Evelmans believes, bred a race of ape-men 1.8 m tall, covered with hair, possessing Herculean strength and working almost without rest on the salt mines. They grew faster than humans. Their only drawback was the inability to reproduce their own kind.

In the book The Mystery of the Frozen Man, Euvelmans writes: “Couldn't such a super freak, a sort of set of individual violations, result from a radical shock to the gene pool? It is this kind of chromosomal disorder to be expected in cases of unnatural love, communication between members of different species. Wouldn’t it be logical to assume that the ape-man, a creature similar to both a man and an ape, could be the fruit of a relationship between a man and a female ape or a woman with a male ape ... ”And then the Belgian zoologist put forward the assumption that such hybridization is quite feasible. One can imagine how a human being with his 46 chromosomes, when combined with an ape with 48 chromosomes, can give rise to a hybrid with 47 chromosomes. However, due to the odd number of chromosomes, such a creature will turn out to be sterile - just like a mule or a hinny, having 63 chromosomes each, the products of crossing a domestic horse with 64 and a donkey with 62 chromosomes.

In a word, Euvelmans came to the conclusion that the corpse preserved by Hansen could be a hybrid of a man and a monkey. But in order to consider such an opinion final, there must be at least one more confirmation of that - another similar copy should be found. Until it is found, the assumption that the ape-men were bred and worked in the Siberian mines remains a semi-fantastic hypothesis. “Moreover, one can only guess - what happened to them after the camps were closed? Euvelmans writes. Were they destroyed or did they die a natural death? They didn’t go to the Himalayas and didn’t become one of the varieties of yeti ... "

However, how could a sterile population survive?

Shall we go to Sukhumi?

Eivelmans' information, by the way, is quite consistent with the data obtained during the investigation undertaken last year by the journalists of the weekly "Life" Irina Alekseeva and Alexander Lomakin. The starting point of this investigation was a fragment of a document sent to the editorial office by the military chemist K. (the officer asked not to give his last name). Collecting in the mid-80s. materials on the testing of chemical weapons on animals, in the archives of the Revolutionary Military Council, he came across a letter from an employee of the Sukhumi monkey farm to Professor Ivanov. This message interested K., and he made extracts.

“In response to publications in newspapers, some comrades (men and women) turned to the state monkey with a request to use them in experiments that testify to the evolutionary origin of man. They offered themselves for experiments with monkeys, not demanding payment, but solely for the sake of science and education, fellow citizens subject to religious ignorance ... But because of the great power of monkeys, it is necessary to allow people to them with great care. A few days ago, one of the women entered the outbuilding where the chimpanzees lived, and one grabbed her, trying to strangle her. It was possible to free her only with the help of several men who came to the rescue in time.”

What is it: the delirium of a madman, an excerpt from a fantasy novel? But the seriousness of the source indicated that some real classified research was behind this.

History of the Monkey

Many have heard about the Sukhumi Monkey Nursery at one time. It is located at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains on the Black Sea coast, in a humid subtropical climate. On an area of ​​several hectares, several thousand anthropoid apes lived there. Tourists and zoologists from all over the USSR came to see them just ten years ago. Today, the Sukhumi monkey house looks depressing. Of the 7500 inhabitants, only 280 remained. Part of the livestock was taken out near Adler, but most of the animals died during the Abkhaz-Georgian war. But the archive of the nursery has been preserved almost completely. There, documents were found that shed additional light on the experiments of Professor Ivanov on crossing a man and a monkey. Apparently, having suffered a fiasco in Africa, he did not calm down and managed to agree with the Soviet government on the purchase of a batch of monkeys abroad. It was with them that the Sukhumi nursery began.

Here is what Professor Ivanov wrote on May 27, 1925 about the goals and objectives of the monkey house to the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR Alexei Rykov: species of anthropoid apes and between the latter and man. These experiments can provide extremely important facts for clarifying the question of the origin of man. Getting hybrids between different types of anthropoids is more than likely. You can almost vouch for these new forms. The birth of a hybrid form between a human and an anthropoid is less likely, but its possibility is far from excluded ... ". At the end of the letter, the investigator asked to allocate 15,000 dollars for his experiments.

The professor's arguments apparently made an impression on the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR: after only four months, on September 30, 1925, the presidium of the Academy of Sciences decides that the expedition of professor Ivanov to Africa "to organize experiments on hybridization on anthropoids" should be recognized as "worthy of great attention and full support."

By the autumn of 1927, the location of the monkey nursery had already been determined. The resolution of the issue is accelerated by the interest in it of the chemical department of the Revolutionary Military Council, which, apparently, intends to use monkeys in testing chemical weapons. However, only half of the monkeys purchased by Ivanov make it to Sukhumi alive. After the brought animals acclimatized and passed the quarantine, the scientists started the experiments. In August 1927, Krasnaya Gazeta wrote about their goals in plain text: “It is supposed to put here the artificial seeding of monkeys of various species between themselves and with humans. In the form of experiments, artificial insemination of a woman from a monkey and a monkey from a man will be carried out according to the method of prof. Ivanova".

Volunteers are starting to flock to Sukhumi from all over the country. However, almost immediately, both in the USSR and abroad, a wave of indignant demands "immediately stop immoral, immoral experiments" arise. The public is reassured: they say that this is a misunderstanding, no experiments on crossing are being conducted - new drugs and progressive methods of treatment are being tested on monkeys. Indeed, a research institute is being created at the nursery, which is engaged in purely medical research. However, Ivanov does not leave Sukhumi either. His program continues - only becomes even more secret. Intensive experiments on crossing humans and monkeys continued until 1932, until the death of the experimenter! And it came, they say, under rather strange circumstances. One day, an unpleasant incident occurred in the nursery: one of the employees escaped at night, releasing hybrids into the wild. Ivanov and his closest assistants were immediately arrested. They were accused of betraying the Motherland and shot, and the hybridization laboratory was closed...

Finite la comedia...

However, nothing disappears without a trace. Some researchers claim that all the scientific material accumulated in the course of Professor Ivanov's many years of experiments was confiscated by special agencies and, in the strictest secrecy, was transferred somewhere to Siberia, where the experiments, it seems, were continued! Thus, Evelmans' information about the experiments in the GULAG is indirectly confirmed... There are very curious tales going around Abkhazia as well. The old people say that in the mountains even after the Second World War one could meet "wild people", similar to great apes. Were they not hybrids that had escaped from the nursery, living out their lives in freedom? ..

Scientists, however, are very skeptical about the possibility of obtaining hybrids of monkeys and humans. “It’s basically impossible,” they say. - Otherwise, the theory of the origin of man from a monkey would have been repeatedly confirmed, say, in the Middle Ages, when it was common among sailors to take monkeys with them on flights. And not only so that they amused sailors with their antics. According to the Director of the Medical Genetic Research Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (RAMS), Academician, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Vladimir Ilyich Ivanov (namesake of I.I. Ivanov), “all information about the allegedly available results successful crossing of a human with great apes (with gorillas, first of all) and obtaining viable offspring from them do not have a single scientific confirmation.

(An attempt to reproduce human offspring from a monkey can only be successful in one case. Recently, the newspapers were bypassed by the story of the inhabitants of Naples, Angela and Carlo Konove. Ten years after the wedding, they finally managed to get a child - chubby rosy-cheeked Maria weighing 3 , 5 kg, without any physical and mental abnormalities. The unusual story was that a female gorilla was used as a surrogate mother - a kind of incubator. According to Weekly World News, the expectant mother Mina, a 14-year-old gorilla, took a liking to her womb and the fetus was placed in her womb.

Recent genetic studies have unequivocally shown that we are rather distant relatives with monkeys. And they couldn't come from them. Although humans and great apes have fairly close matching in the set and sequence of DNA in the genome, they are not compatible in terms of the structural organization of DNA. Human and monkey cells reject each other, and the fetus is not formed. At the time when I.I. Ivanov, it was not possible to overcome this obstacle.

However, this does not mean at all that what was impossible yesterday has not become possible today. Now there are ways to merge two cells belonging to different animals: scientists have learned, with the help of special enzymes, to expose cells, remove their membranes and thus “mount” them or inject one into another. But a viable fetus has not yet been obtained through such combinations ...
Oliver

Oliver is a male chimpanzee, in the 70s was considered a possible hybrid of a human and a chimpanzee, however, genetic tests showed that despite some features of Oliver's appearance (humanoid face and upright posture) and behavior, he is nevertheless an ordinary chimpanzee.