Russian Jack
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Ivan Fredericks (1864 - 1904), known as Russian Jack, was a goldminer of the Western Australian gold rush in the 1880s. In 1885, while working in the Halls Creek goldmines, he pushed his sick friend in a wheelbarrow 300 km through the Great Sandy Desert to Wyndham, the nearest town with a medical centre. A statue was erected to him in Halls Creek. He is buried in Fremantle Cemetery.
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Read the article (author Vladimir Kroupnik) about Russian Jack in Russian on Sydney festival of Russian literature "Antipodes" or listen audio (Tina Vassiliev presented)on SBS Radio website (Russian page).
