![]() ![]() ![]() As a result, this situation - whatever it might entail - was now Trush's problem and, right away, he began preparing for the trip to Sobolonye.įrom The Tiger: A True Tale of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant ©2010. Because poachers were often involved, these included tiger attacks. ![]() Yuri Trush was the squad leader of an Inspection Tiger unit, one of six in the territory whose purpose was to investigate forest crimes, specifically those involving tigers. Primorye (Pri-mor-ya) is, among other things, the last stronghold of the Siberian tiger, and the official on the line had some disturbing news: a man had been attacked near Sobolonye, a small logging community located in the deep forest, sixty miles northeast of Luchegorsk. Shortly after dark on the afternoon of December 5, 1997, an urgent message was relayed to a man named Yuri Trush at his home in Luchegorsk, a mid-sized mining town in Primorye Territory in Russia's Far East, not far from the Chinese border. ![]()
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