A 10-year-old girl was found shivering in a forest next to her lifeless mother after going for a walk together.
Little Polina had sat all night next to her mum, Olga Davydova, who had died of hypothermia.
She was found after a search operation was launched, with 80 volunteers, police sniffer dogs, drones and a helicopter.
The scared girl was some five miles inside the bear-infested forest from the spot they were last seen in the Vladimir region of Russia.
She was given first aid and warm clothes before being taken to the hospital.
The Russian Investigative Committee said: "The life and health of the child is not currently in danger."
On October 24, the girl and her mum had gone for a daytime walk discarding clothes suitable for sub-zero night-time temperatures.
A search operation was launched and they were found on October 25.
Davydova was distraught over the recent death of her mother Svetlana Pankova, 58, an ambulance paramedic, from Covid-19.
Until her death, the grandmother had mainly raised Polina, said a local official.
Now the girl has no one to raise her, officials added.
Senior local official Alexei Sokolov said: “We will decide later on the issue of establishing guardianship for the girl.”
He told reporters: “The search was serious, we had just a few hours. Everyone understood that they needed to search faster.
“There was frost, freezing temperatures. We feared for the child's life.”
An investigation into the circumstances of the woman's death is ongoing.
At the moment, it is not known why the pair decided to go for a walk in the forest despite freezing temperatures.
Between September and October, the Vladimir region reaches an average sub-zero temperature of -3.5C, with lows of up to -7C recorded over the years, Weather Atlas explains.
The weather gets even colder in January, with an average temperature of -11.3C.
