The northern lynx is found in Fennoscandia, the Baltic States, the northern and central part of Poland (including Białowieża Forest and Kampinos National Park), Belarus, the European part of western, northern, central and eastern Russia, the Ural Mountains, and Western Siberia east to the Yenisei River.

[3] In Russian forests, the most important predator of the Eurasian lynx is the grey wolf.

[4] In packs, wolves kill and eat lynxes that fail to escape into trees.

Lynxes tend to actively avoid encounters with wolverines, but may sometimes fight them if defending kittens.

[6][4] One study in Sweden found that out of 33 deaths of lynx of a population being observed, one was probably killed by a wolverine.