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).

Aug 26, 2014 · Leonid Stadnyk, an 8-foot-4 Ukrainian man, refused to be officially measured by the Guinness Book of World Records because he didn’t want the attention. It’s very likely, however, that he was the tallest man in the world. Stadnyk died Sunday at age 44 because of health problems.

Aug 25, 2014 · A man believed to be the tallest in the world has died at age 44. Ukrainian farmer Leonid Stadnyk, who purportedly stood at 8-foot-4, died Sunday due to health problems.

Leonid Stepanovych Stadnyk (Ukrainian: Леонід Степанович Стадник; 5 August 1970 – 24 August 2014) was a Ukrainian farmer. He stood at 8 feet 5 inches or 2.57 meters. He was born in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR. Stadnyk was listed as the world's tallest living man according to Guinness World ...

Aug 27, 2014 · Leonid Stadnyk, who held the record of world’s tallest man, has died aged 44. The peasant farmer from the north-western Ukrainian village of Podoliantsy died on Sunday from a cerebral...

Aug 8, 2007 · Leonid Stadnyk, a 37-year-old former veterinarian from Podolyantsi in central Ukraine, was measured at 2.57m (8ft 5in), the records authority said. He began to grow rapidly aged...

Sep 14, 2023 · Leonid Stadnyk: The Story of the Ukrainian Giant. After he had brain surgery at the age of 12, Leonid Stadnyk started growing at an extraordinary rate due to acromegaly. He saw his body as troublesome and cursed, calling it a "curse from God," and he disliked gaining fame.

Leonid Stadnyk (full name Leonid Ivanovych Stadnyk), (born 1971 in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR and died on 24 August 2014 from a brain hemorrhage) is a man renowned for his stature. He was formerly listed as the world's tallest living man according to Guinness World Records.

Jan 8, 2024 · Leonid Stepanovych Stadnyk (Ukrainian: Леонід Степанович Стадник ; 5 August 1969 – 24 August 2014) was a Ukrainian man who claimed to have stood at 8 feet 5 inches or 2.57 meters tall.

Leonid Stepanovych Stadnyk was a Ukrainian man who stood at 8 feet 5 inches or 2.57 meters tall. Stadnyk's excessive growth began after brain surgery at the age of 13, after which he developed a pituitary gland tumor that caused the gland to …