(Historic) Dmitri Bayanov
Born in 1932, Dmitri Bayanov originally graduated from a teachers school in 1955 with a major in Humanities. After studying under such individuals as Professor B.F. Porshnev and P.P. Smolin, Chief Curator of the Darwin Museum in Moscow, Bayanov took part in Marie-Jeanne Koffmann’s expedition in search of the Almas in the Caucasus Mountains. He later made reconnaissance trips into the same region on his own.
Dmitri Bayanov is currently an active member of the Relict Hominoid Research Seminar at the Darwin Museum. His involvement with the group began in 1964 and he became its chairman in 1975. He was also a founding board member of the International Society of Cryptozoology and served on its Board of Directors until 1992. Bayanov is credited with coining the terms hominology and hominologist in the early 1970s to describe the specific study of unknown hominoids and those who study them.
Bayanov’s cryptozoological career has focused primarily on the study of relict populations of hominids, including the Almas and the American sasquatch, as reflected in his three books, listed below. Each deals with some aspect of hominid research. Bayanov is a close associate of Will Duncan, Mary Green and Janice Coy, and he is a proponent of the claims made in Coy's book Fifty Years With Bigfoot.
Update:
Early on the morning of June 4, 2020, the world of hominid research was shocked with breaking news…
The renowned Russian hominologist Dmitri Bayanov, 88, passed away, on June 1, 2020. He had been in failing health for some time, and had suffered from a short period of congestive heart failure in recent months. (An earlier date of death of May 28, was corrected and clarified by Dmitri’s son, with communications with the hospital. Thanks to Igor Burtsev for the revision.)
Dmitri Yurevich Bayanov was born on March 18, 1932, in Moscow, Russia.
