76-year-old Agafya Lykova is considered the world’s loneliest woman and Russian billionaire, Oleg Deripaska is building her a new home in ‘her mountains’.
Agafya Lykova has been living with her family in the scenic mountains in Russia since 1936 after she and her family fled because of religious persecution.
Every other member of her family – her father and brothers – have passed since then and she continued living alone. It took forty years, in the 1970s, before Soviet geologists found Lykova’s family.
By then, World War 2 had come and gone and the family was not even aware that it happened. Due to their isolation, they had little immunity from common illnesses and it is believed that this contributed to their deaths.
Russian aluminium billionaire Oleg Deripaska has taken Agafya’s survival upon himself. He is sponsoring a single storey house for her in the mountains where she will continue far removed from civilisation.
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Also, due to the COVID-19 virus, the building is being carefully constructed. The house will be built by 18 separate air-boat deliveries after its complete structure was taken apart for reassembly.
There has been precautions during the period that Agafya Lykova and her family has been discovered. Visitations are sparse and monitored so as to not infect them.
The family have survived on growing their own food and they are devout Old Believers, an Orthodox religious sect. They strictly follow Bible practices and shun modern life.
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