Russell grew up in Alberta in the Canadian Rockies as the son of the well known hunter, guide, film maker, and naturalist Andy Russell.
Nikolayenko also fought a war of words with the man with whom he probably had more in common than anyone in Kamchatka: Charlie Russell, a researcher who operated in the south Kamchatka reserve.
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He confirmed the album would feature a collaboration with singer-songwriter Ren Harvieu along with production from Alt-J producer Charlie Russell.
Charlie Russell, who studied bears and raised them and lived with them in Kamchatka, Russia for a decade, and who worked with Treadwell, wrote a lengthy response in which he criticized Treadwell's lack of basic safety precautions such as pepper spray and electric fences, as well as Werner Herzog's portrayal of Treadwell in his documentary Grizzly Man, which Russell said was inaccurate.