declaring in Russian: "Kamchatka was created by nature as if for the very reproduction of salmon." That sounds almost like a myth of origins, but the poster listed some nonmythic contributing ...

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 ...

Russia's Far Eastern natural landscapes, stretching between the port city of Vladivostok and Kamchatka Peninsula are some of the most breathtaking and beautiful in the world. Haunting beauty ...

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 ...

This story appears in the January 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. Some places on this planet ... a remote nature reserve on the east side of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, along the ...

The inter-regional project will feature branches of the Russian Geographical Society in the Kamchatka ... made scientific discoveries in geography, geology, physics, botanic, zoology, and ethnography.