death_date birth_date known_for residence article_title name
9 march 2008 10 may 1890 allegedly being one of the world 's oldest people russia russia varvara semennikova
 varvara semennikova
varvara semennikova

varvara konstantinovna semennikova -lrb- née dyakonova -rrb- -lrb- may 10 , 1890 ?
-- march 9 , 2008 -rrb- was a russian evenk woman who claimed to be the world 's oldest person since august 2007 .
however , her age has not been authenticated internationally by any source including guinness world records or the gerontology research group .
if this claim were verified , she would have been the oldest living person , as well as the fourth-oldest person in history .
the only agency that has agreed with her age is the national archive of yakutia .
she married alexei semennikov , a hunter 27 years her junior , in the mid-to-late 1940s .
it was one of two of her marriages from which she had two children who died in their youth .
at the age of 58 , she adopted an eight-month-old girl , from which she had several grandchildren and great-grandchildren .
