This is reported by TASS with reference to the regional department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for the Kamchatka Territory.

"In the course of prospecting work with the help of deep-sea vehicles of the Ministry of Defense and divers of the Main Directorate of the EMERCOM of Russia for the Kamchatka Territory, a fifth body was recovered from the bottom of the Kuril Lake," the publication says.

The press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry said earlier that the helicopter body was located at a distance of about 500 m from the coast.

According to the Kamchatka Territory administration, the families of those killed in the Mi-8 crash in Kamchatka will be paid 2 million rubles each.