A Tigress named Volya has died at the Priamurye Zoological Gardens near Khabarovsk. When Volya was a cub, she was wounded by poachers. She had also received cancer treatment.

Volya sustained a gunshot wound when she was four months old, and the bullet crushed her jaw. Vets had to conduct several operations to remove the fragments of teeth from her mouth.

Later on, she was diagnosed with cancer and underwent several rounds of chemotherapy. In 2013 Assistant Professor of the Chair of Surgery and Obstetrics at the Vyatka State Agricultural Academy Valery Sokolov operated on the tigress, and there was hope for her recovery.

The tigress lived for eight years after she was wounded.

The administration of the Priamurye Zoological Gardens officially confirmed the death of the tigress Volya. Further comments will be published after an autopsy.