The helicopter had taken off near the region's Vachkazhets volcano, a tourist attraction in the remote Kamchatka Peninsula, and was heading towards the village of Nikolaevka,
The bodies of the deceased have been found and handed over to forensic authorities. The search and rescue operation has been completed,
The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations helicopter will pick up the rescuers from the crash site of the Mi-8 operated by Vityaz-Aero in half an hour,
At this moment we have already found 17 bodies."
The search has not yielded any results so far,
The wreckage of the previously missing helicopter was discovered from the air. It is located at an altitude of 900 meters near the place where it was last contacted,
Today at about 1615 (0415 GMT) communication was lost with a Mi-8 helicopter ... which had 22 people on board, 19 passengers and three crew members,