 It is found primarily in Siberia east of the Sosva River and the Urals, in the East Siberian Mountains, including the Verkhoyansk Range, northeast to the Anadyr Highlands, east to the Kamchatka Peninsula and south into Manchuria, with outlying populations also in northern Kazakhstan and Mongolia, northeastern China, and on the Korean Peninsula.It is believed to be extirpated from South Korea.An isolated population exists on Hokkaidō, Japan, in the Kushiro Shitsugen National Park.