This is reported by TASS with reference to the volunteers of the Liza Alert detachment, who were engaged in searches.
On July 22, 82-year-old Ivanitsky went into the forest to pick mushrooms and never returned.
Ivanitsky is also a four-time world champion in wrestling, as well as a winner and medalist of the USSR freestyle wrestling championships and a medalist of the USSR sambo championship.
Earlier, Ivanitsky's son suggested why his father could have gone missing.