He helped conduct an inquiry after Michio Hoshino, the renowned Japanese bear photographer, was pulled out of his tent and eaten by a bear in 1996 in the southern reserve, a more remote region neighbouring the 2.8 million acre (11,000 km²) Kronotsky state reserve where Nikolayenko was based.
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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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