A powerful snowstorm battered Russia’s Far East Kamchatka Peninsula, bringing travel to a halt and triggering avalanche ...

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 ...

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia--One of Russia’s most active volcanoes erupted on the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula on Tuesday, shooting a vast cloud of ash far into the sky that smothered ...

TASS/. A 5.0-magnitute earthquake occurred near a village in the Aleutsky district of Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, with its epicenter in the Pacific Ocean, a local branch of the ...

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, January 12. /TASS/. A space object believed to be a meteor has been spotted in the sky over Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, videos of the object shooting across the night ...

That paradox applies to Kronotsky Zapovednik, a remote nature reserve on the east side of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, along the Pacific coast a thousand miles north of Japan. It's a splendorous ...

The development of inter–regional air service is a priority for Russia. The flight program between Sakhalin Island and the Kamchatka Peninsula is an extremely important means of communication between ...

Mount Spurr, located about 75 miles West of Anchorage, has been acting up in recent weeks, prompting officials at the U.S. Geological Survey and Alaska Volcano Observatory to issue a yellow alert.

Naturalist, traveller, explorer, doctor, researcher of the Baikal lake, the Far East and the Kamchatka Peninsula, professor at the University ... Born in Adamaryn, a village in the Minsk Governorate ...

Located in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, the Kuril islands stretch for 1,250 km from the southern tip of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula southwards to the Japanese island of Hokkaido, forming a ...

David Koester became interested in Russian explorations ... He made his first trip to Kamchatka in 1991 with a tour group of mountain climbers, shortly after the peninsula opened to foreigners.