Rangers in Yakutia are on a lookout after watching a video showing a failed rescue attempt.
One region has shot 58 ravaging brown bears this year because they intrude too close to settlements, destroying livestock.
Video footage from Yakutia divides opinion: cruelty or necessary because predator was dangerous to people? Inquiry is underway.
Destruction of natural habitat by forest fires 'explains bears causing terror in residential areas'.
Move defies hunters who want to keep shooting the black bear.
This animal and its lost mother wandered some 700 km too far south 'because they couldn't go north' and got confused.
Body found buried some 200 metres from remote research facility 150 kilometres from Mirny.
Now male hunter claims he killed the bears in 'life or death' act to save her.
Our map shows the attacks by bears on humans across a swathe of Siberia and the Russian Far East.