To be the oldest long-livers claims 117-year-old woman
117-year-old resident of Yakutia Varvara Semennikova claims to be the oldest long-liver of the planet.
Until now, the whole world know the names of only two long-lived - 114-year-old Yone Minagawa, who lives in southern Japan, and the 115-year-old Emiliano Mercado Del Toro of Puerto Rico. Last recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.
A resident of Yakutia Barbara Semennikovoy this year celebrated its 117 years. By metrics, Barbara K. was born May 22, 1890 in II Hatyginskom naslege Zhigansk area. Application for recognition yakutyanki the oldest long-liver will be reviewed by the St. Petersburg Institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology.
The Committee on Family and Children reported that today in the Republican database of long-livers are the names of 240 persons whose age is over 80 years. Rosbalt.
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