Joy as 14 year old girl is found alive after 6 days lost in taiga

The teenager survived after eating berries and grass for a week lost in a remote district with heavy rains and cool night temperatures. 

Her health is 'satisfactory' but she has lost weight. 

Yana was shown walking from an Mi8 rescue helicopter and receiving initial medical checks after her ordeal.

She was rushed to hospital after the successful outcome of a search involving 230 police, national guard, and military personnel along with volunteers in the Tukhtetsky district of Krasnoyarsk region. 

The helicopter was crucial to the successful search. It landed in the remote taiga and was heard by the teenager. 

She came out into the clearing and was plucked to safety. Few details have been released yet as to how Yana survived. 

She was found some 16 kilometres from her home. 

Yana became lost on 24 July after going with her mother and three sisters to pick berries. 

It was not her favourite activity and her mother believed she had sneaked back home. 

In fact she was lost, and it took six days of intensive searches also involving two drones to locate her. 

Some 75 km of roads were searched, along with 50 km of the Chindat River, and 95 km of Chulym River.

In all, 700 square kilometres of taiga was checked from the air before the girl was found. 

A month earlier Nikita Sosunkov, 15, had gone is the same district. 

After two weeks his body was tragically found between Oskarovka and Dvinka villages. 

Wild animal bites were discovered on the boy's body but it was unclear what caused his death.

A law enforcement spokesman said: 'It is too yet early to say if a bear or a different animal caused death. Investigative activities are being conducted.'