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 ...

Greenpeace Russia has sent its own teams to investigate the incident The mass death of sea creatures off the coast of Kamchatka in Russia's far east was most likely caused by toxic algae and not ...

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.