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there are 3 potential targets:

1. bears

2. run-away prisoners and various other "wild" people - illegal (and legal) gold panners, poachers in "taiga" or even marihuana("konoplya") gatherers or similar in Kazahstan "steppe" - in many respects those people are more dangerous than bears

3. small game

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When picturing the second scenario, I can't help but think it's a scene straight out of a Hollywood screenplay complete with cheesy one-liners.

I mean, we're talking about bandits being dispatched by shotgun-wielding Cosmonauts who just returned from space, and they may still even be wearing their space suits. Wow.

There was a short film about just that premise recently - only the cosmonaut landed on a farm in the US, and is discovered by a father and son. Wish I could remember the name!

Do you mean Baikonur (2011) ?

Nope - as I recall, it was a short film, around 15 minutes long.

4. Wolves

... which were the actual issue during the already mentioned Voshod-2 recovery.

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