Case file · Cryptid
The 'wild man' captured in Dagestan
In December 1941 Lt-Col. Vazgen Karapetyan, a Red Army doctor, said he examined a naked, hair-covered man captured by partisans in the Dagestan mountains, who could not speak; the man was reportedly shot as a suspected deserter.
1941 CE · 42.82, 47.12 · status: claim
The account
Karapetyan's account, published decades later, became a key 'almasty' case for the Soviet hominologists around Boris Porshnev. Russian Wikipedia's article on Zana suggests that, like Zana, the man was probably a deaf and mentally ill person living wild. The location is approximate.
The sceptical view
A late, single account; a feral or ill human is the simplest explanation.