Forty years in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot
- Posted on January 22, 2026
- By The Guardian
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Forty years in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot

The long read: In 1978, Soviet scientists stumbled upon a family living in a remote part of Russia. They hadn’t interacted with outsiders for decades. Almost half a century later, one of them is still there