Batya
Investigate the BEAR Bogatyr squad and their fate
Story Context
"Investigate the BEAR special forces squad 'Bogatyr' that was sent into Tarkov. Learn what happened to these elite soldiers."
Required Items
Rewards
- This Is All (Not) Coincidence(achievement)
- Learn the fate of the Bogatyr squad(story)
- Voevoda's audio recorder(item)
Objectives
Locate the traces of the BEAR special squad
Pick up and read the Bogatyrs patch. Four spawns: a couch in the cabin on the hill southwest of the new gas station on Customs, the ground beside the convoy BRDM on Woods, a package on the upper roof of the white king airspace control centre on Reserve, or a tree stump in the BEAR camp on Lighthouse.
Locate and obtain the Bogatyr squad patchOptional
Optional. Keep the patch; Lightkeeper wants it back later with the rest of the squad's effects.
Learn more about the Bogatyr squad from the traders
Jaeger, through the trader menu. Ask him about the BEAR patch.
Locate the Ryabina outpost
Woods
North of the sawmill on Woods.
Find more information about the Bogatyr squad
Woods
Read the Hostage evacuation report from Voevoda, on a pallet next to a bottle in the camp. Strelets' amulet is on a green crate at the sniper nest beside the camp. Move the amulet to your off-raid quest inventory, it is needed much later.
Locate and obtain a keepsake of one of the BogatyrsOptional
Woods
Optional. This is Strelets' amulet at the Ryabina sniper nest.
Locate the Carousel outpost
Interchange
Inside the ULTRA shopping mall on Interchange, opposite the IDEA store checkout area.
Find the Bogatyr squad's personal notes
Interchange
Seven pickups here. Taran's postcard on the floor by the beds, Taran's personal file between the beds, Voevoda's audio recorder and Voevoda's thoughts audio tape on the radio table, and upstairs Voevoda's personal file on a desk, Strelets' personal file on an armchair, Strelets' note by the bottles near it.
Learn more about Strelets
Interchange
Strelets' note carries the code 27.893.2000 you will need for the radio.
Learn more about Taran
Interchange
From Taran's personal file at the Carousel outpost.
Locate and obtain a personal item of one of the BogatyrsOptional
Interchange
Optional. Taran's postcard. Move it to off-raid quest inventory, Lightkeeper wants it later.
Learn more about Voevoda
Interchange
From Voevoda's personal file on the second floor of the Carousel outpost.
Find Voevoda's personal belongings
Interchange
Voevoda's audio recorder, on the table with the radio system. Move it to off-raid quest inventory.
Locate and obtain the squad commander's recorderOptional
Interchange
Optional. This is Voevoda's audio recorder from the Carousel outpost.
Locate the Gnezdo outpost
Interchange
East of the ULTRA shopping mall on Interchange.
Search the Gnezdo outpost
Interchange
Six pickups. Audio tape with report on the radio table in the tent, Moreman's personal file on a bed in the tent, Map with triangulated signal in the sleeping bag under the rock, Bogatyr squad operations report by the guitar under the rock, First piece of code note on the pallet with green cloth, and the BEAR note from the outpost behind Ultra on the blue chair by the fire barrel.
Figure out what happened to the Bogatyr squad
Interchange
Answered by the notes at Gnezdo.
Figure out where the Bogatyr squad got ambushed
Interchange
The Map with triangulated signal points at it.
Learn more about the Bogatyr squad's activities
Interchange
From the Bogatyr squad operations report at Gnezdo.
Learn more about the Bogatyr squad's members
Interchange
From Moreman's personal file at Gnezdo.
Locate the ambush spot
Woods
Moreman's grave, near the ZB-016 extraction in the east of Woods.
Obtain more information about the Bogatyr squad
Woods
At the grave: Second piece of code note inside one of the boots, Moreman's phone on the ground by the cross, Moreman's dogtag on the sleeping bag by the cross. Move the dogtag to off-raid quest inventory.
Inspect Moreman's body
Woods
The two code notes together give the radio frequency 35.70.
Locate and obtain Moreman's phoneOptional
Woods
Optional. On the ground next to the cross at the grave.
Locate and obtain a dogtag of one of the BogatyrsOptional
Woods
Optional. Moreman's dogtag, on the sleeping bag by the cross.
Retrieve more information about the ambush from Moreman's phone
Craft Moreman's audio tape #1 and #2 at Workbench level 1, then listen to both. The hideout needs power for the whole craft or it is interrupted.
Obtain Intelligence Center level 3
Required before you can reach the squad by radio.
Contact the Bogatyr squad
At the Intelligence Center radio: frequency 35.70 (from the two code notes), then code 27.893.2000 (from Strelets' note).
Gain access to Lightkeeper
Lighthouse
Behind a locked door on the third floor of the lighthouse building on the peninsula. The bridge is guarded by Zryachiy and lined with Claymores, so an encoded Digital secure DSP radio transmitter is required first; that chain starts with To the Light - Trust but Verify from Mechanic.
Stay on good terms with Lightkeeper
Lighthouse
Harming Zryachiy, his followers, or a Lightkeeper-acquainted PMC decodes your transmitter.
Bring all the Bogatyr squad's items to Lightkeeper
Lighthouse
Five handovers: Taran's postcard, Voevoda's audio recorder, Strelets' amulet, Moreman's dogtag and the Bogatyrs patch. Move them into the in-raid quest inventory first.
Wait for Voevoda to reach out
A 6 to 12 hour wait, then contact him on the same frequency and code.
Complete Voevoda's tasks
Light Machine Guns 5, Assault Rifles 10, Stress Resistance 10, Strength 15, plus 15 kills without dying and 4 PMC kills without dying.
Contact Voevoda
Radio again at 35.70 / 27.893.2000.
Locate the traces of the traitors
Lighthouse
Read the Note mentioning Prapor, on a metal pole at the BEAR camp on Lighthouse.
Interrogate Prapor
Through the trader menu.
Figure out how the cultists are connected to the General
Two notes. Voevoda's photo with a cultist mark is on the floor of the house on the Shoreline island. The Note mentioning General is either at the marked circle west of the sawmill on Woods, next to the candles, or on the wall of the marked room on the third floor of the three-storey dorms on Customs, which needs the Dorm room 314 marked key.
Talk to Lightkeeper
Lighthouse
In person on Lighthouse.
Wait for Lightkeeper to prepare the documents on The Unheard
Completes 6 hours after you read the report.
Collect the documents from Lightkeeper's area
Lighthouse
In a new raid, return to Lightkeeper's locked area and read the Agent network deployment report, on a red wooden box.