Black Caucasians and the Russian Bigfoot

Now free from my Lancastrian Captivity with one of my favorite episodes in a long, long time. I think I over-Britishized the pronunciation of Lancaster, PA: it's not "Lan Caster" but it's not "Lank'ster" either, it's a secret third thing. Either way, watch me mispronounce placenames in a bevy of obscure Caucasian languages! Huge thanks to my friend Sawyer, who also co-wrote the Wisconsin Catholic cult episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vxu2WWl9Nc), for assisting me with research. Who else might be lurking in the Caucasus? A race of sapient squirrels - https://torscabinet.com/stor [merch store] People who speak an all-consonant language - https://www.patreon.com/torscabinet/membership [Patreon] Kubla Kraus, king of all the Cossacks - https://x.com/parsons_tor Thimble's dollarchy - https://facebook.com/torscabinet Basque people cause why not - https://www.reddit.com/user/MrSluds/ Tommy Wiseau's family - https://www.instagram.com/tor.from.oregon/ Check out my friend Caleb's channel about trains and transit! https://www.youtube.com/c/classywhale We did a collab last summer on an episode that turned out surprisingly emotional: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBE_cohLUys Sources & Further Info: Arnold, O.R. (2016) “Снежный человек: вымыслы и реальность [Bigfoot: Fiction and Reality],” Antropogenez.ru, 13 June. https://antropogenez.ru/article/914/. Blakely, A. (1986) Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press. ISBN 978-0-88258-146-0 Bogdanov, K. (2009) “‘Negroes’ in the USSR: The Ethnography of an Imaginary Diaspora,” Forum for Anthropology & Culture, (11), pp. 97–134. Burtsev, I. (1996) “A Skeleton Still Buried and a Skull Unearthed: the Story of Zana,” in D. Bayanov (ed.), In the Footsteps of the Russian Snowman. Moscow: Crypto-Logos, pp. 46-53. ISBN 978-5-900229-18-8 Colarusso, J. (1995) “Abkhazia,” Central Asian Survey, 14(1), pp. 75–96. https://doi.org/10.1080/02634939508400892. Corliss, L. (1946) The Peoples of the Soviet Union. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. English, P.T. (1959) “Cushites, Colchians, and Khazars,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 18(1), pp. 49–53. https://www.jstor.org/stable/543940 Fikes, K. and Lemon, A. (2002) “African Presence in Former Soviet Spaces,” Annual Review of Anthropology, 31(1), pp. 497–524. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.31.040402.085420. Kleshchenko, E. (2021) “Загадка лесной женщины [The Riddle of the Forest Woman],” Chemistry & Life. https://elementy.ru/nauchno-populyarnaya_biblioteka/436322/Zagadka_lesnoy_zhenshchiny. Margaryan, A. et al. (2021) “The genomic origin of Zana of Abkhazia,” Advanced Genetics, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.1002/ggn2.10051. Regal, B. (2011) “The Problems of Evidence,” Searching for Sasquatch. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 131–156. doi.org/10.1057/9780230118294_7. Roeder, C.F. and Afinogenov, G. (2019) “Cold War Creatures: Soviet Science and the Problem of the Abominable Snowman,” in J. Herzberg, C. Kehrt, and - - F. Torma (eds.) Ice and Snow in the Cold War. New York: Berghahn, pp. 236–252. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3167/9781785339868. Sykes, B. (2016) Bigfoot, Yeti, and the Last Neanderthal: A Geneticist’s Search for Modern Apemen. Newburyport: Disinformation. ISBN 978-1-63341-027-5 Tynes, S. (1973a) “When did Africans get to Soviet Union?,” Baltimore: The Afro-American. 30 January, p. 6. Tynes, S. (1973b) “Many Africans came to the Soviet Union during Turkish rule,” Baltimore: The Afro-American. 10 February, p. 6. Tynes, S. (1973c) “Skin color creates no barrier to Africans in the Soviet Union,” Baltimore: The Afro-American. 17 February, p. 6. Scientists explain story of “Afro-Abkhazian” from 19th century photo (12 March 2017) AbkhazWorld.com. (Accessed: March 7, 2026).