Emaciated animal walked 1500km south and away from Arctic Ocean, searching for food.
A dramatic operation in biting cold of minus 41C saved elephants Magda and Jenny from death after a fire in the trailer carrying them across Siberia.
Grigory Akhara, 21, was unconscious but alive when driver Ulyana Lobanova, 30, and her foul-mouthed husband Roman, 42, refused to back-up.
Elephants Magda and Jenny are poised to return to the circus ring after being saved from the intense Siberian cold - by vodka.
Four killed in nightmare accident in Omsk.
A medical rescue flight to Thailand by the Emergencies Ministry brought home four Russian men to the Siberian city of Tyumen on Sunday.