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 ...

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 ...

Russian scientists monitored the Kizimen Volcano after its eruption. Footage shows the snow-covered body of land being ...

TASS/. Russia’s remote Kamchatka peninsula is seeing the increase of tourist flow from the Asia Pacific region, as well as southern Europe and the Baltic states, the local tourist information ...

Debris from a passenger plane carrying 28 people which went missing in the Russian Far East on Tuesday ... in the north of the remote Kamchatka peninsula. It is thought unlikely that anyone ...

Bears, like this female brown bear, are fairly common in the Kamchatka peninsula (file photo) The Russian Navy has defended ... It says a hunting instructor was called in to "neutralise the ...

These eagles are believed to breed only in far eastern Russia, along the coasts and surrounding islands of the Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea. They are most common on the Kamchatka Peninsula.

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.

MOSCOW--Towering clouds of ash and glowing lava are spewing from two volcanoes on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula and scientists say major eruptions could be on the way. The peninsula, which ...