The animal is pictured at Norilsk garbage dump, a police convoy following its every move.
The bear 'had wrong compass settings’ and came south, the first polar bear seen in city since 1970s.
The animal got into a habit of visiting rubbish dumps on remote Novaya Zemlya, say researchers.
Distressing pictures of lost and emaciated predator on streets of Norilsk shocked the world earlier this year, but now she is transformed.
Orphaned female, attracted by smell of food, spent several months at the shift workers’s base.
Emaciated animal walked 1500km south and away from Arctic Ocean, searching for food.
Norilsk is home to the world biggest mining and metallurgy complex, and is shut off from the world in more ways than one.
Locals in Norilsk dive head first into the 4-metre deep fluffy snow as if it were a swimming pool.
One region alone - Yakutia - has 5 million tons scrap metal dumped in polar regions, an ugly Soviet legacy.