There are only a few photos of Sasha
He did not like to be photographed...

Alexandr Sheynov.

aka Kirghiz.

In those years, enthusiasm about solo climbing punished quite severe. Soviet climber shouldn go to climb alone!

Kyrghyz was "stripped" (=they take away official recognition of his experiance), expelled from mountaineering camps, not "released" (=they gave no permition to climb certain mountain or route)  on the mountain. But no one method was able break this man. He again and again went solo. He lived in tents away from alplagerey ate that have and continue to, walk alone.

In 1989, despite all the persecution, ру was recognized as number 1 climber in the USSR. And, accordingly, was in the second Himalayan expedition to the USSR in 1989 - at Kanchenzhangu (the expedition - Nikolay Cherny, Sergey Efimov, Sergey Bogomolov, Eugene Vinogradsky, Mikhail Turkevich, Vasily Elagin, Alexander Shein, Vladimir Koroteev, Sergey Bershov Sergei Arsentiev, Valery Hrischaty, Eugene Klinetsky, Kazbek Valiev, Victor Shepherd, Vladimir Karataev Aleksandr Pogorelov, Vladimir Balyberdin, Mikhail Mozhayev, Anatoly Boukreev, Zinurov Khalitov, Gregory Lunyakov, Rinat Khaibullin, Victor Dedy, Vladimir Suviga, Alexander Glushkovsky, Yuri Moiseev, Leonid Troschinenko .With expedition leaders  Edward Myslovsky and Valentin Ivanov as head coach.)

In 1990, when climbing Ushba, was a "snatch" on the route by his partner. Numerous injuries. Five fractures, including fracture of the skull base, and a huge hematoma of the brain-Three days of transportation on Ushba 'glacier - all this was to put an end to further climbs. Doctors were unsure. 2 months resuscitation, but as soon as the Kirgiz discharged from the hospital with the condition of bed rest, he rushed into the mountains. Motivated - "only the mountains can cure me."

On the photo above he is second from the left

Began a hard time to recovery. After a year and a half field trauma - an attempt to climb Everest. The heaviest swelling of the head, gornyashka-had to come off. A couple of months the story repeated on Annapurna. The body became rigid to respond to the height.

Perhaps he would have returned later perhaps not, but at August 1992, in his "native" valley Adyr-Su, Kirghiz fell down on a paraglider in the stones of the moraine. Multiple fractures, again resuscitation in Nalchik. August 17 Sasha was gone. He is buried at home. In the valley Adyr-Su.

August 2003

from the site www.RussianClimb.com, with permission of E. Laletina