Elephants and tigers entertain public in cities along staggering 16,000km (9,950 mile) route.
New details emerged on Thursday about the frozen corpses of two babies found in the storage freezer of a shop in Verkhnyaya Pyshma.
Excessive hot, dry weather behind spread of poisonous creature to Ulan-Ude.
Pet Druzhok was evacuated but swam back to stand on the doorstep of his waterlogged house, holding back the tide.