Stock image showing a brown bear in Kamchatka. A cub and its mother were shot dead after climbing on board a Russian nuclear submarine. iStock ...

The woman was sleeping in a tent while on an adventure tour in Kamchatka, Russia when the brown bear mauled her on Friday, July 18, according to EurAsia Daily and local news outlet Izvestia.

A grown-up male bear can be three meters long and can weigh 700 kilograms. The population of brown bears in Kamchatka has about 17,900 species.

The Kamchatka brown bear, also known as the Far Eastern brown bear, is the largest subspecies in Eurasia, with a body length of 2.4 metres, to 3 metres tall on hind legs and a weight of up to 700 ...

I hope you enjoy his account of his bear hunting adventure as much as I did."This was my third trip to Russia to hunt with Denny Geurink's Outdoor Adventures; this time for the Kamchatka brown bear.

There is somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 brown bears — also known as the Kamchatka (Far Eastern) brown bear — in the region, according to Bear Conservation.