Elephants Magda and Jenny are poised to return to the circus ring after being saved from the intense Siberian cold - by vodka.
Emaciated animal walked 1500km south and away from Arctic Ocean, searching for food.
A medical rescue flight to Thailand by the Emergencies Ministry brought home four Russian men to the Siberian city of Tyumen on Sunday.
Grigory Akhara, 21, was unconscious but alive when driver Ulyana Lobanova, 30, and her foul-mouthed husband Roman, 42, refused to back-up.
Four killed in nightmare accident in Omsk.
Putin fires top official in Russian Far East, and calls for Investigative Committee to check how authorities performing.