Kamchatka's tottering post-Soviet economy ... which now constitutes the capital of Itelmen life. Kovran villagers still fish by the traditional methods. But starting in the Soviet era, other ...

Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula is a land of superlatives. It is one of the most volcanologically active regions on Earth. It has the world's densest population of brown bears. Next to Yellowstone ...

A dead octopus - among many dead sea creatures washed ashore in Kamchatka Many dead sea creatures have washed up on beaches in Kamchatka, in Russia's far east, in what is being treated as a major ...

Five of the victims died in a fall, climbing above 4,000m (13,123ft) on Klyuchevskaya Sopka in Kamchatka. Russian media report that three are now sheltering from gale-force winds in a ...

Shiveluch is one of the largest volcanoes on Kamchatka with a height of 3,283 ... Ust-Kamchatsky District and 450 km from the regional capital, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.