Authorities have recovered more than 10 bodies of the victims in an air crash that occurred in the Russian Urals last June, local police said on Sunday.

"A cross-country vehicle will transport the remains to Yekaterinburg for forensic examination. The wreckage will remain here under police personnel's supervision," Valery Gorelykh, a spokesman for the Sverdlovsk regional police department, told the Interfax news agency.

An An-2 aircraft with one pilot and 11 passengers on board went missing on June 11, 2012 after taking off from the town of Serov without permission from ground control. A search team officially halted its work in November due to bad weather and complex topography.

However, two hunters from Serov discovered the wreckage of the plane some 8 km from the town on Saturday evening.

"Presumably, the plane crashed while landing. Its wing hit tree tops and crashed ... it was almost impossible to spot the fragments from the air," the Itar-Tass news agency quoted Gorelykh as saying.

The crash might have been followed by a fire as the bodies were all burnt. "Policemen searching the area found human remains and personal belongings of the passengers," the police spokesman added.