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Leonid Stadnyk

Ukrainian tallest human (1970–2014)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ827158 ↗
Source-derived summary

Leonid Stepanovych Stadnyk (Ukrainian: Леонід Степанович Стадник; 5 August 1970 – 24 August 2014) was a Ukrainian man who claimed to have stood at 2.57 m (8 ft 5 in) though photographic evidence suggests he was not taller than 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m).

Death

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

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

References

External links

https://www.gq.com/story/lenoid-stadnyk-tallest-man-russia-200503?printable=true

PHOTO from life of giant (in Russian)

AP article

San Clemente doctor gets to know giant, The Orange County Register

Photo at Ukrainian country side, Photos in UemA

"Ukrainian is world's tallest man". BBC News. 8 August 2007. Retrieved 9 August 2007.

Guinness official record of Leonid Stadnyk's height, based on a measurement by the Ukrainian Book of Records.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Leonid Stadnyk” is ukrainian tallest human (1970–2014). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Leonid, Stadnyk and Ukrainian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 2014, 1918, 1940—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-08-05. For this dossier, Leonid, Stadnyk and Ukrainian is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Leonid Stadnyk” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.