I was born in 1937. In 1961 I graduated from Moscow power institute as engineer in power plants. Later I had work to develop some equipment for power devices, taught physics in an institute, had postgraduate education and in 1968 got Ph.D. in thermodynamics. Now I have a position as a leading researcher in an institute in the Russian Academy of Sciences.

At the same time I have steady interest in nature. I remember fishing from childhood and hunting from the age, when I could apply for a rifle license. I loved long, for a month or longer, travels which now called as extreme in inhabited taiga areas, usually by kayaks. Nature photographing is my favorite vocation.

In 70-th I had got acquainted with a problem of “intermediate link” in human origin. Then I came to the conclusion that some kinds of these “intermediate links” could be kept in the remote areas till now under favorable conditions. The close acquaintance with J.-M. Koffmann, D.Yu.Bayanov and other researchers, who were the followers of B.F.Porshnev, has strengthened this opinion. Short film by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin showed me that materials for scientific study of these creatures also appeared. I became an active member of the Russian society of cryptozoologists and was elected as vice-chairman.

I was participant and chief in expeditions to some areas were presence of relic hominoids was assumed. I put to public attention to such indisputable facts of hominoid existence as alive essence that was caught in the Saratov region, group supervision of adult hominoid with his child in vicinity of Kargopol in Arkhangelsk region, hominoid figure sketch from Kostroma area, and also developing of computer database about hominoids on the USSR territory. But the main success for me in this field is the reconstruction of an unknown primate that lives in Himalayas. It was made on the basis of photo snapshots received by A.Tishkov in 1991.

I am the convinced supporter of inviolent methods in hominoid research.

The list of the basic travels by M.Trachtengerts

1956 – Teberda -. Sukhumi, Western Caucasus, mountain

1961 – The Blue gulf, Karadag, Crimea, walking

1962 – river Dnestr, kayak

1964 – lake Lovozero, river Kurga, Kola peninsula, kayak

1965 – river Podcherem – river Schugor, Northen. Ural, kayak

1968 – settle Shuryshkary – river Voikar, Siberia near river Ob, kayak

1969 – settle Chupa – settle Purnema, White sea, by East coast of Karelia, kayak

1970 – river Khamsara – river Yenisei, Tuva province, kayak

1971 – river Uscha – river Drissa (Pskov province, Byelorussia), kayak

1972 – east coast of the Onega gulf of the White sea, kayak

1973 – river Ob – river Kazym – river Lykhn, West Siberia, motor boat

1974 – river West Dvina – Daugava, kayak

1975 – Blue lakes – river Mologa, Tver province, spring, kayak

1976 – river Ob – river Kazym, West Siberia, motor boat

1977 – Blue lakes, Tver province, spring, kayak

1978 – river Akhtuba, Astrakhan province, kayak

1978 – saving expedition in West Siberia (for V.Pushkarev), late autumn

1979 – river Vetluga, Kostroma province, spring, kayak

1979 – Kirghiz mountains, area of town Merke, walking

1980 – river Chysovaya, Ural, walking

1981 – Gissar moutains, river Karatag, settle Khakimy, Tajikistan, walking

1982 – lake Kleban byk, Donbass, Ukraine, walking

1983 – Gissar mountains, river Siama, Tajikistan, walking

1984 – river Velikaya, Pskov province, kayak

1985 – lake Velje, Tver province, spring, kayak

1985 – river Ob, cape Kazym, walking

1986 – West slopes of Elbrus, Sarmakovo (J.-M.Koffmann), Caucasus mountains

1988 – Kola peninsula, March, snowmobiles, ski

1988 – river Ai, Ural, kayak

1988 – settle Sarmakovo, valley of river Malka, Caucasus mountains

1989 – Saratov province, on traces of hominoid cautch, walking

1990 – Saratov province, walking

1990 – lake Lovozero, Kola peninsula, kayak

1991 – settle Kandalaksha – settle Chupa, by coast of White sea, kayak

1992 – town Kargopol, Arkhangelsk province, hominoid encounting

1994 – river Akhtuba, Astrakhan province, kayak

2000 – lake Baskunchak, Astrakhan province, walking

Michael Trachtengerts on Bigfoot Files, filmed in 2011.

Igor Burtsev has added this, in part:

Comrade 

We lost in the struggle for trogdoditov…

21.02.2017 at night after a brief illness died Michael Neiman Trakhtengerts, 25.05.1937 g. Birth., kand.
Rest in peace, dear comrade! You eternal memory!
The funeral will be held on 25 February.