Revealed how many people died from bear attacks in Russia in 2026

According to TASS calculations, based on reports of regional authorities and open data, the death toll from bear attacks in Russia increased to 33. A new tragic case occurred in the Kirov region: as reported in the government of the region, November 7, a bear attacked a man who during the hunt for elk was next to a bear den in the Yuryansk district, and from his injuries, the hunter died.

This is the first such incident in the region in 2026. Before that, according to TASS, at least 32 people became victims of bear attacks in Russia in 2026, with the largest number of deaths recorded in the Krasnoyarsk Territory - nine.

In Siberia and the Far East, the situation with the exits of bears to people remains difficult: in recent years, the population of these animals in the forests has grown significantly, and the current year was poor harvest in the taiga, because of which hunger drives predators to settlements, where most attacks on people occur.

Earlier it was reported that in Japan shot a giant bear weighing 270 kg, which was not afraid of people.