Tatyana Kozyreva

Tatyana Kozyreva, earlier Yashnikova, also known as Тётка Я (Aunt Ya.) or Ratty (b. 1973, d. 2016) was well known and published Russian female hitchhiker and adventurer.

Tatyana hitchhiked since 1990s and already in 2000 she had travelled 150,000 kilometers by hitchhiking, after what she stopped counting. She travelled large parts of Russia, North America, Europe, Central Asia, China, Turkey, Israel, Egypt,Thailand, Mexico, Morocco, Indonesia and possibly more.

She was well known among Russian hitchhikers community

Tatyana died 3rd of April 2016, at the age of 43 in Indonesia, near Banda Aceh in a diving accident.

Books

Not in any particular order. Please fill in publishing years, Russian titles and missing titles.

• Hitchhiking as a way to communicate with the world
• Women's Safety while hitchhiking
• The Psychology of Hitchhiking
• Funny stories from my travels - scary stories from my travels
• A girl on the side of the road
• Blackriding
• Having or Knowing
• How to convert a suitcase without handles into a proper travel companion
• Girl with an Oar (about wild water rafting)
• Chasing trains
• Medicine and independent travel (Tatyana was a trained medic)
• Freebie
• Diverse Mexico
• Freedom and free will
• Apathy - a problem which we underestimate
• The Buddhist principle of and negative positivity`
• Will and Freedom
• A House for Everyone in Thailand and Morocco

Elsewhere

• Profile at Academy of Free Travel's site (Russian)
• List and info about her books by Anton Krotov (Russian)
• An obituary by Nina (English)
• Une grande aventurière s’est éteinte : RIP – Tatyana Kozyreva Yashnikova by Anick-Marie (French)
• News article about her death in Indonesian (Indonesian)
• Discussion at the hitchgathering Facebook group