
Record-holder
Kateryna Kozak
Country: Ukraine
Where: Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk region
Year: 2015
Result
117 years
Kateryna Kozak is the oldest person ever lived in Ukraine. She was born in 1897 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, has lived through two world wars, and experienced Polish, as well as German and Soviet occupation. During 117 years of life she never attended a hospital, alternatively, she took herbal medicine instead of prescribed pills to treat her ailments. Kateryna Kozak died in Kolomea in 2014.
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