LEARN From A Bug Out That ACTUALLY Happened

In 1978 a Soviet geological team was searching Siberia for oil and mineral reserves.  What they found was nothing short of astounding. 

About a year ago the Smithsonian ran an article chronicling the Lykov’s family flight into Siberia running from the Bolshevik’s Christian purge.  The year was 1936 and the Bolsheviks were persecuting and murdering Russian Orthodox Christians.  First they drove them from the cities and then pursued them to the edge of Siberia.  After seeing his brother shot and killed Karp Lykov  feared  the same fate for his family.  They took a few possessions and some seeds and bolted off into the desolate Siberian Mountains.  Karp Lykov fled the purge with his wife Akulina, his 9 year old son Savin and two year old daughter Natalia.   For the next 40 years they lived isolated from the rest of the world. This is an amazing story of birth, life, near starvation, self-sufficiency, and death. I would suggest that you read this phenomenal article as it is one of the very few accounts of a family “bugging out” and living most of their lives away from civilization.

My point is not to rewrite this article but to comment on this story from a prepper’s perspective.  You can find the original article here.

While I always stress that sheltering in place or having evacuation plan to a bug out location is much better than sheer “bugging out” the Lykov story is the ultimate bug out.  From the account in the story they loaded up a wagon and headed into the woods.  Whenever I read something like this my brain automatically shunts to analytical mode and I begin dissecting the story.  How did they survive?  How would I fare in the same situation?  Here is a look at some of my thoughts from the Lykov story:

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