Alyoshenka (, diminutive of the Russian male first name Alexey) or the Kyshtym Dwarf is believed by many to be a prematurely born female baby with many deformities found in the village of Kaolinovy, near Kyshtym, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia in May 1996. Subsequently, the remains were lost and only photos and videos survive. Various supernatural explanations arose.
Alyoshenka (, diminutive of the Russian male first name Alexey) or the Kyshtym Dwarf is believed by many to be a prematurely born female baby with many deformities found in the village of Kaolinovy, near Kyshtym, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia in May 1996. Subsequently, the remains were lost and only photos and videos survive. Various supernatural explanations arose.
== Discovery == A small human fetus, given the name "Alyoshenka", was found in the woods near the house of an elderly woman, Tamara Vasilyevna Prosvirina, on her way to the well to collect water. Prosvirina then took Alyoshenka in as her "baby". The fetus did not have ears, an umbilical cord or genital organs. The skull lacked a lower jaw, and had an unusual appearance, giving rise to rumours of its extraterrestrial origin. The local population readily supported this rumour, collecting fees from reporters for interviews – at least two Japanese companies (Asahi TV and MTV Japan) made documentaries about the remains.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).