Primorsky mushroom picker: A bear attacked me from an ambush. A resident of the sosva fought off a bear that attacked him (photo) In Primorye, Himalayan bears attack people

If bears behave unceremoniously not only in cities and villages, then in the forest it is strange to expect other behavior from them. Igor Pecherkin, a victim of a Himalayan bear attack in Arseniev, told KP about how he managed to escape.

Previously, bears avoided encounters with humans and did not attack in the forest, - says Igor. “About a week ago I went looking for mushrooms. He didn't make noise, he behaved as usual. The bear attacked their ambush. Before the attack, he saw me, but I did not see him.

Everything happened very quickly, and the mushroom picker did not have time to get the knife.

He knocked me to the ground, - Igor continues. - He tore his hands, his face. The upper lip was cut to such an extent that even the teeth could be seen. Ripped scalp. All the time while we were lying on the ground, I tried to curl up into a ball so that it would not reach the vital organs.

In the end, Igor managed to get a knife and poke the bear - where he got, he did not understand. The wounded bear recoiled and ran away. But after a few seconds he returned.

I read that animals need to look into the eyes, - Igor recalls. - And that bears are afraid of screaming. So I got up and started looking the beast in the eyes and screaming loudly. I must have looked funny. But the beast retreated, and I remained alive.

After the fight, the exhausted forester crawled to the road and called his relatives. They rushed over and took him to the hospital.

I was kept there for about a week to exclude the possibility of infection with rabies, tetanus or something else. The lip was sewn up, the wounds are also slowly healing now. I don’t know when I’ll go to the forest next time,” Igor summed up.

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Experts are sure that a desperate act helped her survive

Doctors assess the condition of a resident of the village of Kirovsky as satisfactory, which cannot but surprise - the woman was taken to the hospital after meeting with a bear. An interesting position of the lady added additional worries to the doctors - but everything worked out.

The young woman literally ran into the beast on her way to work - the village is surrounded by oak groves from almost all sides, in some places the trees come close to the houses. It was not quite dawn yet, it was about 7.20 in the morning. At dusk, the woman noticed a beast rushing at her from the forest, when it was too late to run away.

44-year-old resident of the village of Sosva Alexander Lopakhin survived after meeting with an angry bear. The wounded Uralian is in the hospital. He told URA.RU journalists the details of the unequal duel.

Alexander Lopakhin went to the forest for mushrooms on August 3. Near the village of Koshay I came across a bear with a cub. Protecting the cub, the bear immediately rushed at the man. The wounded man managed to fight off the animal, got to a clearing where cellular communication worked, and called his friend. He arrived by car, took the bloody Lopakhin and took him to the ambulance station in Sosva. There, the mushroom picker was given first aid and sent to Serov's city hospital.

“I moved away from the village for 10-12 kilometers, I always go there for mushrooms. I had already collected half a bucket of mushrooms, walked, looked under my feet. Suddenly I looked up - a bear is standing right in front of me. She is about a meter at the withers, and when she got to her feet, she was taller than me. She rushed at me and began to bite on the head. For some reason it wasn't scary. I pushed her away, and her fur, I noticed, was so pleasant, soft, soft. So we fought for about ten minutes, then I started to beat her in the face, and she ran away, ”Alexander Lopakhin told URA.RU.

The man says that this is not his first meeting with forest animal. He'd run into bears three times before, but they just went in different directions.

According to doctors, the injured mushroom picker has multiple lacerations of the head and upper limbs, a large laceration of the right hand, right ear. The she-bear bit off the tip of his nose, which the doctors had already sewn back on. There is no threat to life.

Stories about bear attacks on residents of the Ural region periodically appear in the media. In October 2015, a bear attacked 29-year-old ambulance paramedic Aleksey Koptyakov from Karpinsk, who went hunting marten. The bear jumped out of the den unexpectedly. Aleksey immediately reacted and replaced the shot in the gun with a bullet, but the weapon did not work. A month after this incident, in November 2015, in the Ivdelsky district, 56-year-old hunter Arkady Shubin almost died in a fight with a connecting rod bear. The man managed to shoot at the connecting rod, but he still knocked down the hunter.

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44-year-old resident of the village of Sosva, in Sverdlovsk region, was able to fight off with his bare hands an angry she-bear who attacked him in the forest, where the fearless Uralian was picking mushrooms.

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Uralian Alexander Lopakhin, like the protagonist of the movie "The Survivor", managed to fight off an angry predator. The attack took place on August 3, 2017. Now everything is all right with the brave mushroom picker: the doctors sewed back the bitten off tip of his nose, the rest of the wounds are also healing.

The 44-year-old Uralian went to the forest for mushrooms and met a bear with a cub near the village of Koshay. Probably, in order to protect the cub from potential danger, the animal immediately attacked the mushroom picker.

Alexander said that everything happened suddenly, he was unarmed. He had only a penknife to cut mushrooms. He began to defend himself with this knife, but the she-bear quickly knocked him out of her hands and began to bite and tear the mushroom picker. He could not do anything, only covered his head with his hands - that is why the main injuries occurred on the head and hands. At some point, Lopakhin realized that he was about to end. Then, out of desperation, with his left hand he grabbed the bear by the head, and with his right he began to beat her in the face. Having received such a rebuff, stunned, out of surprise, she already sat down and released the mushroom picker, and then ran away. The teddy bear ran away with her.

The wounded man managed to get to some clearing where cellular communication worked. He called his friend and told him what had happened. A fellow villager arrived by car, picked up the bloodied Lopakhin and took him to the ambulance station in Sosva. There, the mushroom picker was given first aid and was immediately sent to Serov, where he was hospitalized in the local city hospital.

“I moved away from the village for 10-12 kilometers, I always go there for mushrooms. I had already collected half a bucket of mushrooms, walked, looked under my feet. Suddenly I looked up - a bear is standing right in front of me. She is about a meter at the withers, and when she got to her feet, she was taller than me. She rushed at me and began to bite on the head. For some reason it wasn't scary. I pushed her away, and her fur, I noticed, was so pleasant, soft, soft. So we fought for about ten minutes, then I started to beat her in the face, and she ran away, ”Alexander Lopakhin told reporters.

The man says that this is not his first meeting with a forest animal. He'd run into bears three times before, but they just went in different directions.

The colorful news about the victory over the bear was also published in foreign media. But English-speaking readers do not know what brilliant green is, because it is not used anywhere abroad. Photos of the Urals, smeared with a bright antiseptic, caused bewilderment.

"What, the bear attacked him with a blue felt-tip pen?" - the British write in the comments. Some jokingly explain the strange markings by the fact that he has blue blood and he belongs to a noble family. With the help of Wikipedia, especially inquisitive readers found out that Lopukhin is an old noble family (although the surname Ural mushroom picker- Lopakhin).

Not far from the village of Sosva in the north of the Sverdlovsk region, a bear attacked a mushroom picker, protecting a bear cub.

Sosva is a typical taiga village with 8,000 inhabitants. brown bears are the usual inhabitants of these places. Therefore, when the 45-year-old Alexander with lacerations of his face and hands was taken to the hospital of the nearest city of Serov, the doctors had no doubt that the bear had wounded the mushroom picker. Four hours surgeons "darned" the victim. They know about what happened only from his words: the she-bear attacked suddenly. The man had no weapon - only a penknife to cut mushrooms. He began to fight with the she-bear, hitting her in the face. Having received a rebuff, the 200-kilogram animal retreated along with the bear cub. Now there is no threat to the life of the victim, as the doctors say, he is on the mend.

The forest is nearby, so wolves or bears are a common story for our places, ”says Artem Kiselev, deputy head of Sosva. - But they attack people only in case of some cataclysms. This year, you know, first there were fires, then big water.… And the bears need to eat, so they come to the village.

Two years ago, when the summer turned out to be just as unfortunate for the bear's "menu", in the same region the bear slaughtered the percheron horse of the veterinarian from the village of Romanovo, in the autumn the connecting rods attacked people twice.

Now they have nothing to eat, - complains the local forester Alexander Romanov. - There are neither mushrooms nor berries in the forest. I go to the forest every day, there are a lot of bear tracks around the villages, because there are a lot of unauthorized dumps around settlements. Bears are attracted by the smell food waste because the animal has a good sense of smell ...

A bear, as a rule, does not attack a person - it tries to leave if it does not see a direct threat to itself. However, the she-bear will protect her cubs to the last.

Perhaps the victim simply lost his vigilance - he got carried away with mushrooms and did not notice the bear cub, says biologist Mikhail Panyukov. - No wonder it is recommended to make a loud noise in the forest to indicate your presence - at least tie a bell to your backpack. And it is best to walk in the company of a dog.

When meeting with a wild animal, do not panic. Most often, animals attack if they are injured, frightened, or protecting their cubs. If the animal does not show aggression, then you need to give him the opportunity to leave.

If you notice that the animal is behaving aggressively, then you need to stumble backwards, without making sudden movements. Never turn your back on the animal. If he nevertheless attacked, then the Ministry of Emergency Situations advises to defend himself with fire, as well as to shout, whistle and knock with a stick on a tree. Loud noise will scare away the wild animal.

There are special rules of conduct when meeting with a wild boar. In this case, it is necessary to climb a tree as soon as possible, if possible.

In the summer in the Middle Urals, you can often meet snakes. But even if you are sure that you have a harmless one in front of you, you still should not take it in your arms. First, you may be wrong. Already quite difficult to distinguish from dangerous poisonous viper. Viper - gray color with a flat head and a zigzag pattern on the back, while the snake is dark, almost black. It is also distinguished from the snake by the presence of bright yellow spots on the head. And secondly, it is even capable of defending itself, releasing a special liquid with an unpleasant odor.

If you encounter a snake, let it crawl away calmly. Before sitting on a stump, tap on it with a stick. If there is a snake under it, then it will most likely crawl away.

And most importantly, never molest a wild animal yourself. This can frighten him and, as a result, provoke aggression. You should also not pet the animal if it came to you on its own. Even a specialist will not be able to determine whether it is healthy or sick at first glance. Some animal-borne diseases can be deadly to humans, such as rabies.

Sosva is a typical taiga village with 8,000 inhabitants, most of which either fells the forest, or serves in one of the colonies. Brown bears are common inhabitants of these places. Therefore, when the 45-year-old Alexander with lacerations of his face and hands was taken to the hospital of the nearest city of Serov, the doctors did not even doubt the "diagnosis" - the mushroom picker was wounded by a bear. For four hours, the surgeons "darned" the victim - they sewed up the hand, ear, and sewed the tip of the nose.

As the victim said, the bear attacked suddenly: "He was picking mushrooms, raised his head - and here she is!" He had no weapon - only a penknife to cut mushrooms. Out of complete desperation, the man began to fight with the she-bear, hitting her in the face: "I hit him twice, you have to survive." Having received a rebuff, the 200-kilogram animal retreated along with the bear cub.

Now there is no threat to the life of the victim, as the doctors say, his condition is satisfactory, he is on the mend.

The forest is nearby, so wolves or bears are a common story for our places, ”says Artem Kiselev, deputy head of Sosva. - But they attack people only in case of some cataclysms. This year, you know, first there were fires, then a lot of water ... But the bears need to eat, so they come to the village.

Now they have nothing to eat, - complains the local forester Alexander Romanov. - There are neither mushrooms nor berries in the forest. Every day I go to the forest, so far, pah-pah-pah, I haven’t come across an animal, but there are a lot of bear tracks around the villages, because there are a lot of unauthorized dumps around settlements. Bears are attracted by the smell of food waste.

You can "negotiate" with a bear, especially in the summer, when they are full, they do not show aggression. They "respect" high growth, so if you stand on a stump, rattle something metallic, it will leave, - Igor Zenko, deputy director of the Malaya Sosva reserve, advises. - There are no tips for meeting with a she-bear: if she is with a cub, she will attack almost completely. I saw a bear cub - carefully, without turning your back, like a queen, without making sudden movements, slowly retreat. And if it came to hand-to-hand combat, you need to hit it exactly in the nose - this is the most sore spot at a bear... We have three cordons, bears pass by almost every day - and nothing. We just need to remember that they are at home in the forest, and we are visiting ...

A bear killed a mushroom picker, maimed a hunter, attacked livestock... So, what to do to return alive from the forest?

1. Everyone is afraid of a bear, but a meeting with a wolf, a wild boar and an elk also does not bode well. Master the art of retreat. If you run, it will catch up and break, because the same clumsy bear develops a speed of up to 60 km per hour. What to do? Hint: animals do not climb trees (a bear can, but a large one will not climb).

1. Wild animals are afraid (or simply do not like) screaming, noise and whistling. Feel free to make noise and sing in the forest, turn on music on your smartphone.

3. If you have already encountered nose to nose, then do not look into the eyes of the beast, he perceives this as a threat or a challenge. Back off slowly. Do not turn your back on the attacking beast.

4. There are no abstract bears. And how a specific one will lead is difficult to predict, act according to the situation. It is important not to step over the "rapprochement threshold", that is, not to invade the space that he considers his own.

5. If a wolf attacked you, then you can wrap it around left hand jacket, throw it forward. The beast will bite into the hand with its teeth. Knife in the eyes. With a bear, this number will not work, the power is on his side. But the fight is at least some chance. Put everything you have (basket, backpack) in front of you. Fight back, trying to hit the nose and eyes with a sharp object. Just do not start the fight earlier than it is really necessary. The bear has poor eyesight, he can only see your silhouette, so he comes close to get a better look. Until he stood up on his hind legs and went on the attack, there is hope to disperse peacefully.

The author of these lines knows a man who fought off with his fists polar bear. The tent of VKS officer Sergei Ryzhy on the New Siberian Islands (we were part of Dmitry Shparo's expedition) was torn apart by a bear in search of condensed milk and gingerbread. The lieutenant colonel boldly fought back with improvised objects until comrades with torches came running from neighboring tents and drove away the animals. Got a torn jacket.

There I saw effective method protection - "Molotov cocktail". Empty bottles they fill it with gasoline, insert a wick, set it on fire and ... But you can’t throw it at the beast, it is listed in the Red Book. Thrown to the ground, in front of the beast. The flame and gasoline vapors briefly stop him.

If the situation is hopeless, then - an option. Just don't burn the forest...

But pretending to be dead, as advised on the Internet, is stupid. The meat of the "dead" animals also eat. And in general, remember: it was not they who came to our house, but we - to theirs. Respect forest laws.