When the tallest man in the world lived. Tallest man alive

This big man in the photo - Leonid Stepanovich Stadnik, who voluntarily abandoned the Guinness Book of Records, but in fact the tallest person among those living on Earth.
Let's read about his fate in more detail ...

Leonid Stadnik was born in the village of Podolyantsy (Zhytomyr region) almost near Chernobyl. Leonid Stadnik's parents were not tall. The height of his father is 1.73 meters, and his mother is 1.52 meters. As a child, Leonid also could not be called particularly large. A veterinarian, an athlete, he graduated from school with a gold medal, a university with a red diploma, but he cannot work, cows are afraid of him.
The stadnik began to grow at the age of 14.

Leonid believes that doctors are to blame for everything, who found a benign tumor in his brain at the age of 13, who removed it, hitting the pituitary gland. As a result, his secretion and metabolism were disturbed. Since then, Stadnik began to grow rapidly. By the time Stadnik was educated as a veterinarian and started working, his height had reached 2.03 meters.

According to the Ukrainian "Gulliver", at school he sat on the first desk due to the fact that he was the smallest in the class. Later, especially from the age of 14, he began to grow "by leaps and bounds." At the medical examination at the military registration and enlistment office, the doctor did not have enough bar to measure Leonid's height. But military doctors rejected Lenya not even because of his height, but because of his flat feet - shoe size 60. If Stadnik continues to grow at this pace, he will be able to surpass the record of Robert Wadlow, who, with his height of 272 cm, is considered the tallest man in the history of mankind. However, such a prospect does not please him himself: from year to year it is more and more difficult for him to live.

Stadnik lives in a village near Zhytomyr, 200 km west of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, and rarely gets out of there. Leonid's only means of transportation is a horse, on which he travels to neighboring villages. “A bus is not for me, a car is not for me either. It's like that normal person to carry in the trunk,” he said in an interview on a Ukrainian TV channel. “I can only move on a cart,” says Leonid. True, the horse moves a cart with a 200-kilogram rider by crawling.

Previously, Stadnik was mentioned in (Guinness World Records) as the tallest man alive on Earth. However, on August 20, 2008, the editor-in-chief of the Book, Craig Glenday, announced that the title of the tallest man in the world is returning to the Chinese Bao Xishun. This decision was made after the Ukrainian Stadnik abandoned a slightly strange measurement procedure in accordance with the new principles of the Guinness Book. To remain a record holder, it was necessary to obtain permission from Leonid Stepanovich to take several measurements of his height within 24 hours under the supervision of a representative of the Book of Records. The final result would be the average height of Stadnik.

Thus, the Ukrainian, whose height according to Ukrainian Book Records (Ukrainian Book of Records) is 257 cm, rested on its laurels for only a few months. On August 8, 2007, the press secretary of the Book of Records, Amarilis Espinoza, stated that in the 2008 edition, Stadnik's height exceeded the height of Xishun (236 cm), a native of the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia (Inner Mongolia). Leonid Stepanovich himself subsequently stated that he refused the measurement procedure, because he did not want to draw undue attention to his person.

Stadnik started growing after undergoing brain surgery when he was 12 years old. He developed a pituitary gland tumor, a gland that began to produce excessive amounts of growth hormones. Doctors called his version of acromegaly gigantism. Twenty years after the operation, doctors discovered that Stadnik's tumor mysteriously disappeared. In the spring issue of the Pravda newspaper for 2006, it was reported that over the past 2005, the Ukrainian had grown by another 2 cm. It was also reported that Stadnik's health was gradually deteriorating, which made it difficult for him to move around.

Ukrainian businessmen own funds bought a satellite dish for Leonid and gave him a computer with Internet access. A giant from the village of Podoliantsy met with the third Ukrainian president, Viktor Yushchenko, in clinical hospital'Feofania', where the capital's doctors operated on Leonid's mother.

Leonid is also the owner of the largest hand, his palm is 31 cm long. A three-liter jar looks like a glass in it. Lenin's fist is bigger than a boxing glove. In 2001, Stadnik had to quit his job: he got frostbite on his feet, because he could not buy normal shoes in size 64.
Stadnik feeds mainly on potatoes and lard. He is very afraid to get better - “the joints do not keep up with my growth anyway, if I get fat, I will generally fall down.” His mother Galina Pavlovna, a woman of one and a half meters tall, dreams: “I would like a good daughter-in-law to take care of Lenchik.”

In general, he is extremely dissatisfied with the attention that the press began to show him. “I am not an artist. One who is born to crawl cannot fly. And what other career can you make - twist the light bulbs in the lanterns? For thirty-three years no one climbed into the soul. And there is such a massive interest. I would just kill the person who posted a message about me on the Internet. I like to be in the shade, in my "hole", and there are so many cameras, light. The psyche can not stand it, I can’t sleep at night, ”the giant complained to a correspondent of one newspaper.

In many fairy tales bible stories, modern fantasy and computer games you can find references to giants - people whose height and physical abilities much higher than normal human. They guard caves, treasures and secrets like in Ender's Game, fight in war like Goliath, hunt people and live in the mountains like the giants from the Harry Potter book.

Uncle Styopa from Marshak's poem was a giant for Soviet children - kind, caring and fearless. Such a kind of superhero in the Soviet style. And what are the giants in our time?

Giants of antiquity

The ancient Egyptians were sure that they descended from a race of giants who once sailed to their lands and taught medicine and construction. The largest man on earth was described by the Roman historian Pliny. The skeleton of this creature was found after the earthquake. This man was about 20 meters tall. In Ethiopia, a similar specimen was found, but 16 meters long.

AT different times people have found the remains of giants almost all over the world. The last find was made in 2008 by archaeologists near the town of Borjomi, in the Kharagul nature reserve. That giant was 3 m high and with a skull three times the size of a human. And the most impressive find of our time was made in Australia: a giant tooth 67 mm high and 42 wide. The owner of such a tooth should have been 7.5 m tall and weighed about 400 kg. According to the results of the analysis, the giant lived about 9 million years ago.

Fragments of the remains of smaller giants are found periodically. Human jaws 3-3.5 m long were found in China. South Africa found details of a skull 45 cm high. In the Sahara in 2005-2006, the largest mass burial of giant people was discovered, in total about 200 skeletons. The growth of these creatures exceeded 2 meters. They lived about 5000 years ago.

Giants of our time

The biggest man of our time is the peasant Fyodor Makhnov, who lived in the 19th century. His height was 285 cm. However, the data was not officially recorded, and it is not possible to verify them now. He was born in 1878 and lived for 34 years, probable cause death - lung disease.

Many giants were born and lived in the 20th century. Let's start with the highest. Robert Wadlow, whose height was 268 cm, lived only 22 years and died in 1940. His weight was 220 kg. Don Koeler grew to 245 cm and died in 1988 at the age of 55. A circus performer from China has a height of 242 cm, he was born in 1982. The tallest native of Africa and a resident of the planet from 1988 to 1990 has a height of 242 cm.

Most big people in history were born in all parts of the world. Many of them are basketball players, and growth only helps them in professional activity. The tallest man on the planet today is the Turk Sultan Kossen.

Guinness World Records: Sultan Kossen

The biggest person is an ordinary farmer from Turkey. At the age of 26, he was awarded the title of the tallest man, his height is 246 cm. He also has the longest palms 27.5 cm long and feet - 36.5 cm. gigantism. Not so long ago, the tumor was removed, and the growth of the Sultan stopped.

Sultan Kossen uses crutches to get around, hardly fits into a car, orders clothes and shoes to fit his size, and even a bed for him was made separately. The biggest inconvenience for him are the ceilings in the apartments. The Sultan himself sees the pluses in his height: he sees better and farther, helps to hang curtains and change light bulbs in lighting fixtures.

Tall height scares the fair sex away from the Turk, and Sultan hopes that thanks to the fame gained through the Guinness Book of Records, his dream of starting a family will come true.

Rivals of Sultan Kossen

The previous record holder, Mongolian shepherd Bao Ksishuna, 236 cm tall, used his height as an advertisement for himself when choosing a bride. He married a girl half his height.

To be honest, Sultan Kossen has a competitor with exactly the same height - this is the Chinese Zao, 27 years old. Leonid Stadnik from Ukraine, 259 cm tall, could also compete for the title of the tallest person. But neither the Chinese nor the Ukrainian were willing to confirm their height officially before the Guinness Book of Records committee. Therefore, the official point of view on which person is the largest differs from the real one.

The fattest man

Heavyweights, who may not have outstanding growth, but with their mass impress everyone, should rightfully participate in the nomination “the biggest man”.

To date, the place of the fattest man is not occupied. The previous record holder is Manuel Uribe, born in 1965 in Venezuela, now lives in Mexico. His weight was unparalleled in the history of medicine, the most big weight a person is fixed at around 587 kg. With such a mass, the functions of the body are disturbed. When attempts to lose weight turned out to be insufficiently effective, Manuel turned to the world community through television. In his situation, there were two options for the development of events: therapy, massage, a strict diet or surgery to remove fat mass, inserting a plastic balloon into the stomach to reduce appetite.

Manuel Uribe received several proposals for the operation, but this turned against his Catholic beliefs, and he leaned towards the diet option. The most unexpected thing is that it worked. Adhering to a strict protein diet, he was able to lose more than a hundred kilograms in a year, and by 2008 his weight approached 380 kg. Thanks to the endurance shown, Uribe could now move around the apartment and even go outside.

The best source of motivation for a man is a woman. So our hero found such a source for himself, he met a young girl named Soliss. At first she came to get a haircut and a massage, and after that the friendship grew into something more. By 2011, Manuel's weight was only 167 kg, which is already minus 420 kg from the maximum.

Pros and cons of modern giants

How does the biggest person feel, can he fulfill himself? Modern lightweight the industry produces clothes and shoes in standard sizes, and it is impossible to find the right one for people who go beyond the boundaries of the usual physical parameters. Residential buildings have standard height ceilings, which is the curse of modern giants. Many of them - professional players basketball or runners, but in other professions there is no need for high growth or heavy weight.

Since 1955, the Guinness Book of Records has recorded interesting facts, events and phenomena from life. It was originally conceived as entertainment for patrons of beer pubs, but soon gained immense popularity and became the best-selling book. It was in it that the tallest man in world history was noted, or rather, several people.

giant people

In most cases, people with abnormally large growth are not a joke of nature, but the result of a serious illness. If you plunge into history, all the giant people known today were born ordinary people, and differed little from their brothers and sisters until a certain time. The main reasons for the rapid growth were (of the brain) and acromegaly. Almost every tallest person in history suffered from them. Interesting Facts about their lives are outlined below.

Robert Wadlow

The tallest man on the planet in the history of the world (officially measured) was born in Illinois in 1918. Robert was the eldest child in the family. In addition to him, Mr. and Mrs. Wadlow had two other sons and two daughters.

Until the age of four, Robert was an ordinary boy, and after that something in his body failed, and his growth began to increase dramatically. Already at the age of ten, he was almost two meters tall.

Despite his developmental characteristics, Robert successfully graduated from high school and entered the university to study law. In parallel, he participated in circus performances and soon became famous throughout America as a "good giant."

He died at the age of twenty-two from blood poisoning. The good man was buried by the whole world. The tallest man in world history rests in a concrete grave. So wished his parents, who feared an attack by vandals.

Fedor Makhnov

Fedor Andreevich was a simple peasant from Russian Empire. He was born in 1878 in a small farm. From childhood it was clear that Fedor unusual child. He was significantly taller than his brothers and sisters.

In his youth, he got a job working in a circus, with which he toured Europe. In the contract of a sixteen-year-old boy, a height of two meters and fifty-four centimeters was listed. Soon he got tired of working as a circus artist, and Fedor returned to his native land.

In the village of Gorbachi, he settled with his wife Efrosinya, who was also rather big. Five children were born in their marriage. The village where the Makhnov family lived was jokingly nicknamed "Velikanov Khutor".

According to Efrosinya Makhnova, Fedor grew another thirty-one centimeters. Thus, his height was two meters and eighty-five centimeters. However, it is not recorded in any official document, therefore, does not claim the title of "The tallest man in world history."

Makhnov died a few months after the celebration of his thirty-fourth birthday.

Leonid Stadnik

Leonid Stepanovich Stadnik was included in the Book of Records as the tallest living person in history, but after his death in 2014, this title was transferred to another.

Stadnik was born in the village of Podoliantsy in Ukraine. He was an ordinary boy, but everything changed at the age of twelve. He underwent an unsuccessful brain operation, during which the pituitary gland was damaged. After that, Leonid began to grow abnormally fast, facial features changed, and the feet became simply gigantic. Leonid's height was two meters fifty-seven centimeters.

Despite this twist of fate, the young man did not despair. He graduated from a veterinary school and worked as a veterinarian until 2003.

Most tall people always face health problems. Leonidas was no exception. It became difficult for him to move around, and he almost did not leave the house. When the President of Ukraine Yushchenko found out who the tallest man in the world was, he gave his compatriot a car. Leonid was also helped by local businessmen.

Stadnik died at the age of forty-four from a cerebral hemorrhage.

Sultan Kösen

Sultan Kösen is a Turk, born in 1982 in the city of Mardin. Because of his height of two meters and fifty-one centimeters, the Sultan is listed in the Guinness Book as the tallest person among the living.

Due to health problems, Kösen has been farming since he was a teenager. He moves with the help of crutches, but does not despair at all. He even jokes about the benefits of his height (it is convenient to screw in light bulbs).

In 2010 Sultan left for the USA. He was invited medical clinic University of Virginia for treatment. For two long years, Kösen underwent various procedures, and as a result, the doctors achieved excellent results. The growth hormone in Sultan's body was put to sleep.

At the age of thirty-one, Sultan Kösen became the husband of Merve Dibo. By the standards of a giant, the wife is not tall and hardly reaches the elbow of the Sultan. However happy marriage it doesn't interfere.

Zhan Junzai

The Chinese peasant Zhan Junzai could claim the title of "The Tallest Man in World History". He was born in 1966 in Shanxi Province. Like many giant people, Zhan was of normal height until he developed a pituitary tumor.

At the age of sixteen, his height began to go up sharply, a few years later he reached two meters and twelve centimeters.

In the late 1990s, Zhang went to the hospital complaining of severe headaches. He underwent surgery to remove the tumor. Since 1999, his height has stabilized and froze at around two meters forty-two centimeters. Zhan is the highest representative of his nation.

Bao Xishun

Zhan Junqiu could compete with his compatriot from the province, the shepherd Bao Xishun. He was born in 1951.

For several years he was named among the tallest people among the living, but then Bao lost this title.

Few people know about the health problems of the Mongolian shepherd, but the world community is aware of his marriage to a young saleswoman from Chifeng. Bao also provided invaluable assistance in rescuing two dying dolphins. With his long arms, he removed foreign objects from their stomachs.

Treintier Keever

Giant women occupy a special place in history. A native of the Netherlands, Treintje Keever is considered the most tall woman in history, but her exact height is not known. Information about him is approximate. There is an opinion that the "Big Maiden" (such was Treintier's nickname) was two meters fifty-four centimeters tall, or even higher.

Treintier was born to the skipper Cornelis and his maid Anna. Parents immediately realized that their child is not like everyone else. She had too big and Long hands and feet. Treintier grew up very quickly, and her parents decided to become famous at her expense. The girl was constantly taken to fairs and carnivals and shown there for money.

One day, the King of Bohemia, Frederick the Fifth, his wife and retinue became witnesses of this. Everyone was so amazed an unusual girl, and the king's wife made an entry in her diary about an extraordinary nine-year-old child with the growth of a giant.

And so Treintier's life passed in constant traveling and performances. Despite a serious illness, the girl's parents did not stop showing her to people. During one such trip, seventeen-year-old Treintier died of cancer. This happened in 1633.

In memory of her, a portrait remained, which depicts a very tall girl in bourgeois clothes. However, the artist was very flattered by Treintier, because he depicted her as attractive, with thin hands and a petite face. Apparently, the girl suffered from acromegaly and could not look exactly as depicted in the picture.

Anna Haining Bates

Anna was born in August 1846 in Canada. In addition to her, the family of immigrants from Scotland had thirteen more children, but no one else was distinguished by unusual growth.

Anna at birth weighed over eight kilograms. Its growth rate was very rapid. Already at the age of fifteen, her height exceeded the mark of two meters. Despite this, her body remained proportionate, so (presumably) Anna did not get sick.

At the age of sixteen, Anna got into the circus for own will. She was paid good money, which the girl could spend on her education. At the performances, Anna's incorrect height was called in order to attract more viewers. For contrast, a dwarf from the troupe entered the arena along with the girl.

During the tour of the circus, Anna met her future husband, also a giant. The height of Martin van Buuren was two meters forty-one centimeters. The tallest circus people got married in 1871 in London.

Twice Anna tried to become a mother, but her delivery was unsuccessful. The children were too large, the births were very difficult, and the babies died.

Anna spent the last years of her life on a farm with her husband. She died of tuberculosis in 1888 and was buried in the cemetery next to her children.

Fyodor Andreevich Makhnov at one time was known to almost the whole world. The fact is that he was the tallest man. With a weight of 182 kilograms, his height was 285 centimeters, and a 12-year-old child could easily fit in his boot.

Fyodor Makhnov was born on June 6 (old style) 1878 in the village of Kostyuki, Vitebsk district (now Belarus) into a poor family. The Makhnov family was taller than average, but not giants. Fedor's mother died during childbirth, the child turned out to be very large. The grandfather took up the upbringing of the boy.

At first, Fedor Makhnov developed as it should an ordinary child, but by the age of eight he began to grow intensively. At the age of 12, his height already reached two meters. His foot was 51 centimeters, and his palm was 32 centimeters. His strength was also proportional to his height - he could easily lift an adult or pull a hay cart uphill. The landowner Korzhenevsky hired a young hero to clear the river of boulders that interfered with the operation of the water mill.

When Fedor turned 14, due to his abnormal growth, he even had to rebuild the hut. The children laughed at him because of his height, in response the giant hung their hats on the ridge of the roof or barn.

One day, the owner of a wandering circus, Otto Bidinder, noticed a young giant in the market in Vitebsk, where Fedor worked part-time to earn money for clothes and shoes that were made to order for him. At that time, unusual people were very popular, so Otto persuaded Fyodor's relatives to let the young man go to Germany.

First, Fedor Makhnov studied German and circus arts. At the age of 16, the young man signed a contract to work in the circus. Fedor smashed bricks with the edge of his palm, unbent horseshoes, and lying down he could lift a platform with a small orchestra. But for the most part, people came to performances to see the real giant with their own eyes - by the age of 25, Makhnov had grown to 2 meters 85 centimeters.

The giant's food also corresponded to such dimensions. For breakfast, he ate an omelette of 20 eggs, 8 loaves of bread and two liters of tea, for lunch - two and a half kilograms of meat and the same number of potatoes. And Makhnov could sleep for more than 24 hours.

Makhnov gave nine years to work in the circus and became a wealthy person. At the beginning of the 20th century, he moved to his native land, where he bought the land of the landowner Korzhenevsky, and remade the estate to fit his height and named it Velikanovo. Bidinder sent materials for construction from Germany. Makhnov maintained friendly relations with Otto Bidinder until the end of his life.

Despite his considerable fortune and good disposition, the giant could not find a mate for a long time. As a result, he married a village teacher Efrosinya Lebedeva. The girl was taller than average, but still a meter shorter than her husband. The wife gave birth to Fedor five children.

Sometimes Fyodor Makhnov went to work in Europe - he performed in circuses. And his popularity hasn't waned. Often he was invited to social events, where he managed to amuse the guests by lighting cigarettes from the chandelier. Trips were difficult for Makhnov: transport, hotels and restaurants did not correspond to the growth of the giant.

Fedor Makhnov died in 1912 at the age of 34. The cause of death is not exactly known. Fedor was buried in a cemetery in the village of Kostyuki.

On the stone tombstone is written: “Fyodor Andreevich Makhnov. Born June 6, 1878. Died August 28, 1912. The tallest man in the world. He was 3 arshins 9 inches tall. In fact, the height is indicated incorrectly: the value of 3 arshins 9 inches (254 centimeters), which is 30 centimeters less than the actual one, was taken from the contract that Fyodor Makhnov concluded at the age of 16.

In this article, we will talk about phenomenal people who somehow deserve the status of "the tallest man in the world." This title has repeatedly passed from one person to another, but everyone who is mentioned is guaranteed to amaze you with their impressive dimensions.

Living among people of average height, we sometimes do not even think about what human nature is capable of. Any person whose height is under two meters or more seems very tall to us - and this is far from the limit for the inhabitants of our planet.

Sultan Kosen - the tallest living person in the world

To date, the tallest man in the world, according to the information of the Guinness Book of Records, is the Turkish farmer Sultan Kosen, who was born in 1982. His height is 251 cm, while the length of his foot is 36 centimeters. If shoe brands made shoes for such giants, then it would be 62 shoe sizes. However, in reality, Kosen has to order shoes in the atelier for individual parameters.

Unfortunately, the high growth of the tallest person on the planet is not associated with the generosity of natural data, but with a disease - a pituitary tumor. As of today, Sultan Kosen cannot walk normally and has to use crutches. agriculture he did not quite follow his vocation: because of his height and diseases, the guy could not even finish high school, and about more prestigious job he had to forget.

Serious problem of the Sultan for a long time there was not only the search for huge clothes and shoes, but also the continuation of his uncontrolled growth. Until the early 2010s, it continued to grow due to abnormal activity of the pituitary gland, despite the fact that he was already over 20 years old. In 2010, Kosen began undergoing radiotherapy at the University of Virginia Medical School, and by 2012, the hormonal activity of his pituitary gland was completely normal.

Despite the vicissitudes of fate, the tallest man in the world has a cheerful character and a rather positive attitude towards life. So, according to him, his height helps him work with tall trees on the farm and do many other household chores. In addition, Kosen is happy in his personal life: in 2013, he married Merve Dibo, whose height is 173 centimeters.

And in 2014, the tallest man in the world met the smallest: Nepalese Chandra Dangi, whose height is only 54.6 centimeters. A funny photo from this meeting, which was touched by the entire world community, you can see below.

List of highest ever

It cannot be said that there is any single rating of the tallest people who have ever lived on our planet. The problem is that some of them have already left our world, others did not participate in the official measurements of their growth, for example, for the same Guinness Book of Records. However, below we will talk about the most famous giants from among those about whom there is reliable information.

Wadlow, Robert is the tallest recorded person in history.

American Robert Pershing Wadlow was born in 1918 and died in 1940. He is considered the tallest man in the world of those who have been officially registered for the Guinness Book of Records. His height was 272 cm, and his weight was about 199 kg. Robert Wadlow, like Sultan Kosen, suffered from a pituitary tumor, and therefore continued to grow uncontrollably throughout his life. He also suffered from acromegaly. Unfortunately, medicine at the beginning of the 20th century could not help him. Over time, he, like Kosen, needed crutches, and they played a fatal role in his fate: the crutch rubbed Robert's leg, causing an infection and severe sepsis. He died in his sleep shortly after this incident.

Parents, sisters and brothers of the tallest man in the history of the world had normal growth. Despite health problems, Wadlow graduated from high school and entered the university, and also performed in the circus and traveled with performances throughout America. He became a kind of US celebrity and the nickname "good giant". About 40 thousand compatriots came to his funeral, and 12 people had to carry a huge coffin.

Leonid Stadnik - Ukrainian giant

Leonid Stadnik was born in the village of Podoliantsy (near Chernobyl) in 1970, and died there in 2014. As a child, he was the smallest child in the class, which is why he constantly sat at the first desk. However, at the age of 13, he experienced an event that changed his life and, quite likely, later became the cause of death in early age: operation to remove benign tumor from the brain. Most likely, during the operation, the doctors touched the pituitary gland of the young patient, because of which its functions were impaired, and it began to grow uncontrollably. Subsequently, he was given the same diagnosis as the previous Gullivers: a pituitary tumor and acromegaly.

Nevertheless, the young man graduated from school with a gold medal, entered the Zhytomyr Agricultural Institute and left it as a veterinary surgeon with a red diploma, and even worked in his specialty for some time. Over time, the work had to be abandoned: the cows were afraid of a huge man, whose height eventually reached 253 centimeters, and weight - up to 200 kilograms.

In 2007, Leonid agreed to official measurements of his height from the Guinness Book of Records, and was recorded in it as a new record holder (replacing the Chinese Bao Xishun in this post). However, a year later, when the rules for registering records were changed in the Guinness Book, and its representatives turned to Stadnik with a request to re-take measurements by independent judges, the Ukrainian refused, and Bao Xishun again took his place. As Leonid himself explained this act, he did not want any popularity and hype. He died of a hemorrhage into a pituitary tumor at the age of 44.

Bao Xishun is one of the tallest living

Bao Xishun is a Chinese shepherd born in 1951 in Inner Mongolia. His height is 236 cm. The record was first recorded in 2005, and in 2008, as already noted, he returned to Sishun after Leonid Stadnik refused to take repeated measurements. In 2007, he married a 28-year-old compatriot, a girl with average height. Bao Xishun is also known for helping rescue two dolphins in Fushun's Royal Ocean World Park in 2006: using his arms, which are over 1 meter long, he removed foreign bodies from the stomachs of the unfortunate inhabitants of the park.

The tallest people in Russia

All of the above people, to a certain extent, deserve the title of the tallest person in the world: from the living, from the registered, and so on. However, it is obvious that both in the world and in Russia, there must have been giants commensurate with them in height, who simply did not receive their share of fame, or were not officially measured.

Fedor Makhnov - the giant of the Russian Empire

The most famous Gulliver of the Russian Empire, born in the Vitebsk province (now the territory of Belarus), was Fyodor Makhnov. He lived from 1878 to 1912. According to the surviving information, his height was 285 centimeters, although he was not officially registered for the Guinness Book of Records. During his lifetime, Fedor worked for some time in the circus, traveling with the troupe to many foreign countries, and then settled with his wife in the Grodno region of modern Belarus.

It is noteworthy that Makhnov's wife, teacher Efrosinya Lebedeva, was also a very tall woman: her height was 215 cm. Fyodor and Efrosinya had five children. They were quite tall, but not one of them grew to two meters. The tallest man in Russia and in the world died at the age of 34 due to a lung disease, although some believe that he was poisoned.

Final table

So, the title of the tallest person in the world changes its owner quite often, while some people wear it unofficially, since there is no confirmed data on their growth.

However, we offer you our small top of the tallest people in history as of 2017:

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