Charles Russell looks out from the cabin he built near Kambalnoye Lake in Kamchatka. One of the bear cubs, who he saved but are now missing, walks nearby. (Yuri Kozyrev / For the Times)
Charles Russell and Maureen Enns walk in 1999 with three female bear cubs they saved after a hunter killed the bears’ mother. (Yuri Kozyrev / For the Times)
Charles Russell rests with the three bear cubs. (Yuri Kozyrev / For the Times)
Charles Russell with bear cubs Chico and Biscuit rest near the Kambalnoye Lake. (Alexi Maslov / For the Times)
Yuri Slobodchikov, a former cattle farm worker from the village of Sokoch, shows off a salmon from an aluminum drum full of salted salmon hidden in a shed. Many fishermen in the region catch over the limit allowed them. (Sergi L. Loiko / For the Times)
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is the capital city of the region. The Karyaksky Volcano can be seen in the background. (Sergei L. Loiko / For the Times)
Dobrynya, a huge brown bear, used to dominate the Tikhaya river in the Kronotsky Reserve before he disappeared two years ago. Naturalist Vitaly Nikolayenko had befriended the bear. (Vitaly Nikolayenko / For the Times)
