Sheriff’s Office Able to Release Name of Russian Man Who Drowned in Eel River; Thanks Helpful Citizens

Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department:

Dordzhi Sandzhiev on the right. [Photo provided by a friend.

On Ocotber 6th, 2017 Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the area of the Dean Creek Resort near Redway to a report of a deceased subject partially submerged in the South Fork of the Eel River. Members of the Coroner’s Office also responded and the subject was retrieved from a shallow area of the river. The Coroner’s Office was able to obtain finger prints from the deceased subject and identify the subject as 33 year old Dordzhi Sandzhiev. Sandzhiev frequented Southern Humboldt and was known to deputies. Sandzhiev claimed that he was from Russia. At the time of the incident Sandzhiev’s name was not released to the media as the Coroner’s Office was unable to make notification to the next of kin.

The Coroner’s Office worked with the Russian Consulate and was eventually able to confirm that Dordzhi Sandzhiev was born in Elista Russia, and was a Russian Citizen. The Russian Consulate had been attempting to contact Sandzhiev’s family without success. Notification was not made until local citizens assisted by using the means of social media. The Sheriff’s – Coroner Office would like to thank those citizens who helped with the notification of Sandzhiev’s family members.

An autopsy was performed and the cause of death was determined to be from drowning. There are no known witnesses to the drowning and the Sheriff’s Office is encouraging anyone with information to please contact the Sheriff’s Office at 707-445-7251 or the Crime Tip Line at 707-268-2539.

 

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Mogtx
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6 years ago

Took awhile to find out cause of death. Great job kym with the update .

nocodeofconduct
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nocodeofconduct
6 years ago

Living life like christopher mcandless did not work out for him?

Me Myself and I
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Me Myself and I
6 years ago

Weren’t there 2 bodies?

spam
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spam
6 years ago

Dorje was one of the two persons in the motor home parked by the Presbyterian Church implicated in the fire. A sad ending.

Rj
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Rj
6 years ago

Dude looks Asian, not Russian?

Jamara
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Jamara
6 years ago
Reply to  Rj

Asians live in Russia too…lol

Tammie Mcdonald
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Tammie Mcdonald
6 years ago

He was born in Elista russia. There are a lot of oriental people in russia. I had several foreign exchange students from russia work for me that were oriental.

Tseren
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Tseren
4 years ago

He is from the Kalmyk Nation, Khalmg Tangch, in what is now known as the Republic of Kalmykia in Russia. Kalmyk is the Russian-Tatar name for the Oirat Mongols who emigrated to the lower Volga-Caspian depression region in the 16th c. from western Mongolia.

So when you see an asian face belonging to someone from “Russia” think Genghis Khan.

The Russians came from Rusland in Scandinavia and Slavia in E. and SE Europe. The land of Russia was once Tataria and before that Mongolia and the land of the Huns.