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Kamchatka
UNESCO
world heritage sites
"Bystrinsky" Regional Nature Park
near
Esso
The Kamchatka Volcanoes is a landscape of exceptional natural beauty with its large symmetrical volcanoes, lakes, wild rivers and spectacular coastline.
"Kluchevskoy" Regional Nature Park (Klyuchevskaya Sopka)
near
Klyuchi
Klyuchevskaya appeared 6,000 years ago. Its first recorded eruption occurred in 1697, and it has been almost continuously active ever since,
Kronotskiy State Natural Biosphere Reserve
near
Atlasovo
It has Russia's only geyser basin, plus several mountain ranges with numerous volcanoes, both active and extinct. Due to its often harsh climate and its mix of volcanoes and geysers, it is frequently described as the Land of Fire and Ice.
Nalychevo" Regional Nature Park
near
Yelizovo
Many rare geological phenomena concentrate here in a small space. This is a unique place to observe and study volcanic activity, ancient and modern ore and hydrotherma forming processes. The active volcanoes are centers of mighty modern glaciation. Tarn glaciers are forming in cirques of ancient extinct volcanoes.
Southern Kamchatka Regional Nature Park
in
Petropavlovsk
The Nature Park features diversity of thermal phenomena concentrated in several geothermal systems such as Mutnovsky, Zhirovsky, and Khodutkinsky.
South Kamchatka State Nature Reserve
at
N51 19 60.00 E157 0 0.00
Hilly sanctuary is crowned by three volcanoes such as Kambalny (2,156 meters or 7,074 ft), Kamchatkan southernmost volcano, that close the Eastern Volcanic Range; Kosheleva (1,812 meters or 5,945 ft); and elegant Ilyinsky stratovolcano (1,578 meters or 5,177 ft).