The most elderly female pensioner living in the Russian capital is 119 years old, RBC business daily reported citing the press service of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.
The woman can claim to be recognized as the world’s oldest living person. According to Guinness World Records, the oldest known living person is Japan’s Kane Tanaka, a 116-year-old woman from Japan. The oldest person whose age was officially verified is France’s Jeanne Calment, who lived to the age of 122 years.
The name of the Russian pensioner and her biography are not yet known – yet, according to the Pension Fund’s data, the woman was 17 years old during the October Revolution of 1917, and during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, she was over 40. She was to have retired back in 1955 and have been a pensioner for nearly 65 years.
“This means the woman has been a pensioner for a longer period than she was a worker – although she possibly was a working pensioner,” said Nikolai Yepikhin, tax expert and head of the Uproshchyonka news website for accountants. “Currently, the average length of retirement is 21 years, but this figure is obviously inflated as most citizens will not live this long upon reaching their retirement age. And this woman has lived over three times as long,” he said.
Also, according to the Pension Fund, there is another elderly woman aged over 110 living in Moscow, who was born in 1909. Overall, the Russian capital has 807 centenarian pensioners.