Sakha Woman Was Believed World’s Oldest, 117-Year-Old.

A hunter and herdswoman from Arctic Russia, believed by some to be the world’s oldest living person, has died. Varvara Semennikova, who belonged to a local indigenous tribe, the Evenks, is believed to have been 117 years old when she died Sunday in the northern republic of Sakha, Interfax. Staff in the republic’s national archive last year found church records proving that Semennikova was born