Kamchatka Peninsula
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The Kamchatka Peninsula is a 1,250-kilometre-long peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about 270,000 km2. The Sea of Okhotsk bounds the peninsula's western coastline, immediately offshor
The eruption of Klyuchevskaya Sopka
Opala volcano in the southern part of Kamchatka
The lake-filled Akademia Nauk caldera, seen from the north with Karymsky volcano in the foreground
Koryaksky volcano towering over Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
Koryaks
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Koryaks are an Indigenous people of the Russian Far East who live immediately north of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Kamchatka Krai and inhabit the coastlands of the Bering Sea. The cultural borders of t
Kamchatka Peninsula
…Island constitute Kamchatka Krai of the Russian Federation. The majority of the 322,079 inhabitants are ethnic Russians, with about 13,000 being Koryaks (2014). More than half of the population lives in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (179,526 in 2010) and nearby Yelizovo (38,980). The Kamchatka Peninsula…
Koryak ceremony of starting the New Fire
Koryak shaman woman (circa 1900)
Lamellar armour traditionally worn by the Koryak people (circa 1900)
Koryak women's coat