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00:01:30the gates to Lake Teletskoye, the small Baikal of Western
00:01:33Siberia, as it is often called in guidebooks, the Biya River begins
00:01:37here, one of the large rivers of the region,
00:01:40all around, as far as the eye can see, taiga forests.
00:01:54It's quiet here early in the morning and peaceful, but in the evenings
00:01:58it's not without
00:02:00danger to be outside, with the onset of dusk locals try not to leave their
00:02:04homes,
00:02:08we had such an incident, my
00:02:11wife and I were sitting at home, approximately it was
00:02:149:30 PM, that evening Vitaly and his family
00:02:18were already getting ready for bed, when suddenly, a strange noise was heard in
00:02:22the yard, I heard how my
00:02:26fence began to break, the cracking of boards, here we can...
00:02:30you can see, here they are, and
00:02:33the heavy breathing of this bear, like this
00:02:35growl, Vitaly decided
00:02:39to act, the plan was short, he wanted to run out
00:02:42and scream, he thought the beast would get scared
00:02:45and leave, I open the door and see his
00:02:47paw up to his elbow, it turns out, already on
00:02:51the terrace, here are the traces of
00:02:55claws, I was simply stunned and how
00:02:59I scream. at him
00:03:02and close the door, I held the door very tightly, and
00:03:06I felt how this big body, it ran across
00:03:10the porch and went to
00:03:12another part of the plot, there it climbed over
00:03:15the fence. The bear did not just climb over the fence,
00:03:19it knocked out several wooden sections with its paws to
00:03:22pass. Vitaly called emergency
00:03:25services. Hunters and gamekeepers
00:03:28arrived, inspected.
00:04:00He has no weapons to somehow protect himself after that
00:04:03incident, he installed sensors on the side of the forest, they
00:04:06detect the approach of wild
00:04:08animals,
00:04:13most
00:04:13importantly,
00:04:17this is a device,
00:04:21this is a siren with a motion sensor, so I set it up, if someone
00:04:24approaches here, then it will be audible,
00:04:28this is a sound one, it's somewhere around
00:04:31120-130 decibels, much stronger than a
00:04:35car signal,
00:04:38and a pepper spray, so its range is about
00:04:415 meters, it hits, well, accordingly, it scares away like
00:04:44a pepper spray but for
00:04:46an animal,
00:04:53that same night, when the beast broke into his house,
00:04:56a tragedy occurred nearby on the bank of the Biya river. At
00:05:001 AM he came to the tent, apparently, he also smelled food, most
00:05:03likely,
00:05:07this is the very place where, as the locals say, the tent was,
00:05:11further down is a cliff and...
00:05:14Snezhana came to rest in Altai from the Novosibirsk region
00:05:18with her boyfriend. The day before, he proposed to her.
00:05:21Tourists were presumably warned that bear
00:05:25sightings have become more frequent in the Turachaksky district, but the young people
00:05:28probably underestimated the danger. The girl could not be
00:05:31saved.
00:05:32The village of Artybash, Lake Teletskoye, and
00:05:37the surrounding areas are all tourist spots. People
00:05:40love to come here. Here is also part of the Altai
00:05:44Biosphere Reserve.
00:05:47Currently, all eco-routes of
00:05:50the reserve are closed for visits. The reason is the same.
00:05:53Increased activity of brown bears. But
00:05:56on the territory itself there is a small village, Yaylyu.
00:05:59Mainly reserve employees live there. Tatiana and
00:06:03Roman are among them. They track the number of animals,
00:06:06observe their movement, mark their
00:06:09resting places.
00:06:13Now we are walking along one of the penetration
00:06:16routes, along one of the routes that bears use to go to
00:06:20the village, well, here it's a forest ravine, here
00:06:24it's an electric fence, they pass here absolutely calmly, but
00:06:27well, of course, at night. Tracking the movement of animals is done by
00:06:30camera traps, which record every passage past
00:06:33them. Currently, the bear
00:06:36population is large, about
00:06:3930-25 individuals, so they pass.
00:07:42here in the reserve there are gardens, old apple and pear trees,
00:07:45planted back in the fifties, broken trees,
00:07:49bear's handiwork, here just
00:07:52two weeks ago everything was covered in pears,
00:07:56there were a lot of fruits, everything was falling, and
00:08:00naturally these smells attracted the bear here, and as
00:08:03you can see, here is the result, that is,
00:08:06a big bear came and just broke
00:08:10it like this, bent it and... ate all of it, then lay here,
00:08:14probably, and just feasted on these
00:08:16pears.
00:08:18Yuri Nikolaevich, a biologist Akhmatovet, has been observing brown
00:08:21bears for 35 years, says this year is not
00:08:25anomalous, but very difficult due to a shortage of food in the
00:08:28taiga. Simply, this year there are no cedar
00:08:31nuts, in Siberia the brown
00:08:34bear mainly gets fat, puts on weight,
00:08:38stores fat for winter, this is on
00:08:41cedar nuts. this is its main food, if it's
00:08:44not there, then it looks for an alternative, but
00:08:48in recent decades it has started
00:08:50to look for an alternative not in nature, but with
00:08:54people.
00:08:572026 is not the first difficult year in terms of food for
00:09:01bears. Yuri Nikolaevich recalls similar situations.
00:09:04The problem is that if a bear once tasted something somewhere, it
00:09:08remembers the way to that place for a long time.
00:09:13up to 40 years he can live quite well, he has a good memory, that
00:09:17is, in 2008 he came here, he
00:09:20ate, then there was 2014,
00:09:242018, then the years were milder,
00:09:27but there were cedar nuts, but very few, and
00:09:31he was not satisfied, and he still came here, he
00:09:35came to
00:09:35the villages,
00:10:25with diminished fear of man, they can easily
00:10:28overcome it.
00:10:44The reserve is a specially protected area, hunting and culling
00:10:47of animals, including bears, are prohibited here,
00:10:51so all that employees and residents of the village of Ya can protect themselves with...
00:11:35Of course, at a short distance, but the bear will definitely not
00:11:38approach.
00:11:41A curfew is in effect in the reserve. At nightfall, residents of the village of Yaily
00:11:44do not go out into the streets, they also carefully clean up all garbage,
00:11:48food waste is disposed of in special containers,
00:11:52inaccessible to...
00:12:26No one can reliably say how many bears are currently in
00:12:30the taiga, what their population is. They are counted using various non-contact
00:12:33methods that do not provide a 100%
00:12:35estimate.
00:12:38And here we are moving, for example, along country forest roads and
00:12:42we see on the soil
00:12:45traces of bears and
00:12:49roughly speaking, now if we go to the taiga with
00:12:52you, we will drive along a forest road.
00:12:55terrain, approximately 2 to 4 km,
00:12:58there will be tracks of another completely
00:13:00different bear. Nikolay Maksimychev
00:13:04is an amateur hunter, he has been going to the taiga for game since childhood, for more than
00:13:0730 years. To meet a bear, you had to go very
00:13:11far, deep into the taiga, and parents,
00:13:15uncles, from childhood there were conversations, there was a whole story about how a bear was obtained,
00:13:19they went 30 km away, they
00:13:22found it there. Now there are many
00:13:25more predators. You don't have to look for them, they
00:13:35one plot to another, where he ate pears. Hunters believe that
00:13:38such bear behavior is associated not only with a poor cedar harvest, but
00:13:42also with a strong population growth in recent years. Since
00:13:46the moment when our legislation changed, we
00:13:50no longer have state-owned game farms, when there were no more regular
00:13:53hunters who had a plan. No one
00:13:56practically reacted to the bear task, and now there is a large
00:14:00overpopulation, bear hunting is difficult and dangerous - says
00:14:03Nikolay, and the killed animal, due to its specific nature, is not very
00:14:06in demand on the market.
00:14:09A bear is omnivorous, it eats carrion, it likes
00:14:13to kill an animal, bury it, for example, yes, it
00:14:16rotted, when every third bear is practically
00:14:20sick, well, therefore it has no
00:14:23value.
00:15:25It was visible. Galina Ivanova's family
00:15:28has been working here in the area for many years. They have their own
00:15:31apiary, they regularly take honey to markets.
00:15:35Yes, we meet bears everywhere now.
00:15:37When you drive home, two of them can cross the road,
00:15:41a mama bear constantly walks here, with her cubs, but she is actually
00:15:44old, she doesn't come here, but there are many
00:15:48young ones. Dmitrievka is not a remote
00:15:52village, there are about 800 residents here, a school, a kindergarten,
00:15:56a library, a club, people keep livestock, grow vegetables,
00:15:59fruits, work, normal life, the order
00:16:02of which is disturbed by bears this season, if earlier
00:16:06bears only walked around the village, without entering it, then this
00:16:09year they have already, specifically in Dmitrievka, in two
00:16:13personal subsidiary farms, destroyed hives, in the neighboring
00:16:17village of Udalovka, they also entered gardens.
00:16:20The authorities have taken measures. A curfew has been introduced,
00:16:24raids have been organized, and the schedule of school lessons has been changed.
00:16:28At the municipal district level, by decision of
00:16:31the emergency commission, it was decided that in
00:16:35the evening, from 8:00 PM,
00:16:38our children should not be on the street. To understand
00:16:42the scale of the problem, we turned to one of the leading bear specialists in
00:16:46Russia. Mikhail Arsenievich Krechmar, zoologist,
00:16:50hunter-naturalist, candidate of biological sciences, writer and
00:16:53journalist from the Far East. Since
00:16:552012, he has been the editor-in-chief of the Russian hunting
00:16:58magazine. He has been studying brown bears since 1986.
00:17:02Statistics concerning the number of
00:17:05bears are
00:17:08very relative.
00:17:11Personally, I don't believe them at all, but
00:17:14there are some indirect indicators by which
00:17:17one can judge that the number of bears has
00:17:21increased by approximately three times in our
00:17:24country since the late 1980s. According to official
00:17:28data from the Ministry of Natural Resources, as of 2026, there are almost
00:17:31308 thousand brown bears in Russia, in
00:17:351990 there were about
00:17:37133,000. The main population is concentrated in
00:17:41Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk Krais, with 26,000 in
00:17:45each. In Kamchatka - 24,000, in
00:17:48Irkutsk Oblast - 22, in Altai - just
00:17:51under 5,000, in Buryatia - slightly over
00:17:546,000 individuals. All estimates, even very
00:17:57accurate ones: the number of any large mammals,
00:18:01roe deer, elk,
00:18:04and deer, whatever you like, they
00:18:06have an error of 25%,
00:18:10that is, if you counted 100 animals somewhere, then
00:18:13you can say that there are
00:18:1775 of them, or you can say that there are 125 of them, in both cases you will not
00:18:21be lying. According to the data from the Ministry of Natural Resources, the situation
00:18:25this year is not anomalous, usually there are
00:18:2820-30 incidents per year, in 2025 there were
00:18:3234 cases, in
00:18:332024.
00:18:37his own data, from bears
00:18:41from 30 to 80
00:18:43people die, well now, of course,
00:18:47it feels like a big trouble has occurred, in many places
00:18:50there are many bears and so on, but now
00:18:54we seem to be on the
00:18:57verge of major problems. Irkutsk
00:19:01region - gardening partnership, in summer people live here with
00:19:04families, come for berries, mushrooms and... silence, but this
00:19:08year they couldn't get a full rest, bears came out to
00:19:12people and one of them went right into
00:19:14the yard.
00:19:21That day Olga stayed at her parents' dacha with two small
00:19:24children, put them to bed, wanted to wash dishes, but something
00:19:28stopped her, then the cat started asking to go outside. The cat went out of this door
00:19:31here, and his muzzle was in this window. And he
00:19:35slowly began to... and go around like that, he went
00:19:39to the garden bed, she closed the door,
00:19:43first thing, the children, I told her, well, I showed her on
00:19:46the camera that a bear came, we need to play hide-and-seek, let's sit quietly,
00:19:50then she remembered, the front door was not
00:19:52locked,
00:20:00when the bear broke in, I closed it, I managed to close the door
00:20:03like this, I stood like this, bracing my feet against the walls, and stood
00:20:07like this, holding the door, like this, she called her brother, who started
00:20:11remotely shouting at the beast into the security
00:20:13camera.
00:20:23Olga believes that bears are attracted to dachas not only by berries in
00:20:26the garden beds, but also by the condition of common dumps, which are overflowing, and
00:20:30also by food waste in the plots themselves. In that garden bed there
00:20:34were watermelon rinds, there were, well, garbage there.
00:20:56in the chat they keep writing that now they are afraid to let their children out to play, that they
00:20:58are afraid to go to the dacha, they are afraid.
00:21:13A serious situation is currently happening in Buryatia, where bear sightings
00:21:16are recorded daily, authorities call
00:21:19it... a mass phenomenon, almost fifty reports in just one day,
00:21:23and these are not just sightings, this year
00:21:26in the republic, bears attacked people, and he bites my
00:21:30legs, just like that, he grabs like that and bites,
00:21:34like this, he grabs like this,
00:21:37and I have only one thought
00:21:41in my head, how to get rid of him, she's just
00:21:44doing it, I'm trying to hit him in the eye with my right hand,
00:21:48but my reaction, his... reaction, it's like, well, earth and
00:21:52sky, in short, he shakes his head, and apparently, he hit
00:21:55with a log, that's the only thing
00:21:58noted, well, nothing, everything's fine,
00:22:02that's it, and I start screaming wildly, and my voice
00:22:05is loud, a good voice, Sergey
00:22:08Georgievich was admitted to the surgery department in early September, with deep
00:22:12lacerations after a bear attack, but he was lucky
00:22:16to escape, two other cases of residents encountering predators
00:22:20ended fatally, the reasons for such bear behavior are the same as
00:22:23throughout Siberia. Yes, undoubtedly, the appearance of bears near settlements
00:22:27is primarily due to unauthorized dumps, people
00:22:30feed them, leave food waste, animal carcasses
00:22:34are thrown, as it were, in the forest, which
00:22:37attracts bears. In the republic, special brigades of
00:22:41hunters have been formed, 24 in 12 districts,
00:22:44patrolling at night and in the morning, they pay
00:22:481,500 for a kill.
00:22:58He has a collection of trophies at home acquired over decades,
00:23:01and this is a simple goat,
00:23:04a local, a local goat was here,
00:23:07and during the rutting season it was
00:23:10shot, but for him a bear is not just a trophy, it is
00:23:14an adversary that he knows well and explains,
00:23:18the reason is not so much hunger. Bears have forgotten how to fear
00:23:21humans. In the nineties, eighties, there were commercial
00:23:25hunters who were on staff, they were in the forests, they were sitting in
00:23:29the forest, uh squirrel hunters, there were a lot
00:23:32of squirrel hunters, and there were a lot of sable hunters, they hunted sables,
00:23:36and the bear encountered
00:23:39humans in the forest. Now, uh, there are few
00:23:42sable hunters, it turns out that there aren't many people in
00:23:46the forest, this bear came down, he didn't
00:23:50see people, and a person for a bear, well,
00:23:53it's like another food
00:23:56chain link, and advice from an experienced hunter in case
00:24:00an encounter with a bear does happen, don't
00:24:02panic, most importantly,
00:24:06you will have the opportunity to slowly, slowly retreat, do not make
00:24:09sudden movements,
00:24:11this bear will in any case
00:24:15react to...
00:24:18a sudden movement or running, if a person runs,
00:24:21that's it, it's his prey, he
00:24:25will catch up, the bear will catch up, while in Siberia bears come out to dacha
00:24:44settlements and villages, in the remote taiga of Khakassia an event occurred
00:24:47that... almost ended in tragedy, there in the Khakassky
00:24:51reserve, at the hermitage of Lykova, a predator
00:24:54appeared.
00:24:56Agafya Karpovna was busy with household chores
00:25:05near the hut, when suddenly she noticed a large
00:25:08animal on the hillside. It sits on the mountain,
00:25:12the bear was tried to be driven away with firecrackers
00:25:15and shots, it hid somewhere closer.
00:25:19it saw
00:25:21us,
00:25:25ran away, now near Agafya Lykova's hut
00:25:29volunteers are on duty 24/7, helping her with household chores, making sure
00:25:31the bear doesn't come too close to the hermit's dwelling.
00:25:35The main thing now, say
00:25:39experts, is that the peak of collisions and unexpected encounters with
00:25:41bears is still ahead. I certainly wouldn't want to be
00:25:45a prophet of doom, but... Absolutely
00:25:49certainly, the peak of conflicts will
00:25:52fall
00:25:54on the last weeks before
00:25:56they go into hibernation and on the first 2 weeks
00:26:00after the snow
00:26:02cover falls, well, that's how it always happens,
00:26:06if there are still tracks for another week after the snow, it makes sense
00:26:10to be on alert. The Ministry of Natural Resources has already announced
00:26:13a call for proposals from regions on how to change hunting laws,
00:26:16hunters demand that quotas be removed and the license period
00:26:20extended for the entire season. We don't
00:26:23have a common understanding of a wild nature
00:26:26management plan, and we must manage
00:26:29it, and throughout the country. The cold snap
00:26:32is coming soon, then it will be
00:26:35clear: have the bears gone into hibernation or remained
00:26:38roamers? Mikhail Krechmar notes that if
00:26:42bear tracks are seen a week or two after the first
00:26:45snow, one should be wary, the peak has not yet passed.