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A teenage girl lost in the Arctic has 'come back from the dead' after surviving for more than TWO WEEKS on just water and berries.

Svetlana Evai, 15, managed to avoid bears and wolves as she wandered around the remote area in north Russia trying to find her way home.

The schoolgirl’s survival has been hailed a “miracle” as it also emerged she survived freezing temperatures overnight while she was only seven miles from her family home.

From a nomadic family of reindeer herders, Svetlana got lost and disoriented on a four mile walk from her summer camp to visit her brother.

(Image: Gydan Nature Reserve/The Siberia)

A rescue team arrived on the remote Gydan Peninsula - one of the most remote spots in the world - after three days - but it took another 12 days to find her despite being only a few miles away.

Hope had been running out for finding her alive with night temperatures dipping to freezing point in the late summer.

Her family feared she had been attacked by brown bears which were seen roaming in the region.

In the end her uncle found her suffering from exposure but “walking towards him”, said her aunt Irina Yar.

(Image: The Siberian Times)

(Image: The Siberian Times)

“When she went missing, people were worried because the bears are roaming very close,” said one source.

She was airlifted to hospital by a search helicopter, reported The Siberian Times .

The girl survived on wild cranberries, black and red currents, and cloudberries - which were mostly unripe.

Despite suffering from exposure medics said ‘her vital organs are safe’ and ‘there is no threat to her life’.

“Her blood pressure and heart beat are stable,” said Eldar Faradjev, chief doctor of Tazovsky central hospital.

(Image: The Siberian Times) (Image: Gydan Nature Reserve/The Siberia)

During her ordeal, temperatures veered from almost freezing at night to a high of 27C.

But she got wet in the thawing permafrost, suffering leg and knee injuries from crawling.

She was “constantly trying to find her way back” but was unable to do so.

Senior doctor Alexander Bukharov - an expert in polar survival - said it was a “miracle” she had been found alive.

(Image: Vesti Yamal; The Siberian Times)

Head of the search Vitaly Pavlyuchkov said: “It helped that there was a lot of water in the tundra, so she had no problem drinking.

“The Gydan tundra is soaked with water.

“When you walk along the tundra in summer you are almost knee-deep.

“She ate berries, and they are not completely ripe at this time.”