Leonid Stadnyk Explained

Leonid Stadnyk
Native Name:	Леонід Стадник
Native Name Lang:	uk
Birth Name:	Leonid Stepanovych Stadnyk
Birth Date:	5 August 1970
Birth Place:	Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Nationality:	Ukrainian
Death Place:	, Chudniv Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine
Height:	8feet(Disputed) 7feet (According to photographic evidence)https://web.archive.org/web/20090923095818/http://www.thetallestman.com/leonidstadnyk.htm

Leonid Stepanovych Stadnyk (Ukrainian: Леонід Степанович Стадник; 5 August 1970 – 24 August 2014) was a Ukrainian man who claimed to have stood at 2.57m (08.43feet) though photographic evidence suggests he was not taller than 7feet.^[1]

Death

Stadnyk died at the age of 44 on 24 August 2014 from a brain hemorrhage.^[2]

See also

• List of tallest people
• Bao Xishun, the previous holder of tallest man Guinness title
• Robert Wadlow (1918–1940), the tallest man in history
• Sultan Kösen, the current tallest man in Guinness title

External links

• https://www.gq.com/story/lenoid-stadnyk-tallest-man-russia-200503?printable=true
• PHOTO from life of giant
• AP article
• San Clemente doctor gets to know giant, The Orange County Register
• Photo at Ukrainian country side, Photos in UemA
• News: Ukrainian is world's tallest man. 2007-08-08. BBC News. 2007-08-09.
• Guinness official record of Leonid Stadnyk's height, based on a measurement by the Ukrainian Book of Records.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2009-09-23 . Leonid Stadnyk, The tallest man or a fraud . 2022-04-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090923095818/http://www.thetallestman.com/leonidstadnyk.htm . 23 September 2009 . dead.
2. News: World's 'tallest man' at 8ft dies age 44. Will Stewart. Daily Mirror. 27 August 2014.