This story appears in the August 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Kamchatka Peninsula, rugged and remote, is a vast blade of land stabbing southwestward through cold seas from the ...

TASS /. The Kamchatka Region administration are considering three reasons for water pollution off the coast of the peninsula, said the governor of the region Vladimir Solodov on Monday at a briefing.

Shiveluch, one of the most active volcanoes on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, erupted on Thursday evening, sending ash clouds up to 15 kilometers into the sky and blanketing large areas with dust.

A court in Russia’s Far East Kamchatka Peninsula on Monday sentenced Vladimir Yefimov, the head of the local branch of the liberal opposition party Yabloko, to an additional two years in prison ...

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, October 22. /TASS/. The eruption of the Bezymyanny volcano on Russia's Kamchatka peninsula began at 08:22 local time (23:22 Moscow time on Wednesday), a spokesman for the ...