A little-known volcano on a remote Pacific island may have been the source of one of the 19th century’s most powerful ...

A court in Far East Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula sentenced Vladimir Yefimov, the head of the local branch of the liberal opposition party Yabloko, to two years in prison for violating wartime ...

A sanctioned LNG carrier has discharged a shipment it has been holding for five months at the Far East located off Russia’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

TASS/. An ash ejection up to 11 km high has been recorded at the Shiveluch volcano in Kamchatka, with the plume spreading east of the volcano, the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the ...

A Russian man who survived 66 days adrift at sea on an inflatable boat has been charged with negligence over the deaths of his relatives on board, investigators said Friday. Mikhail Pichugin, 46, was ...

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 ...

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, October 22. /TASS/. The eruption of the Bezymyanny volcano on Russia's Kamchatka peninsula began at 08:22 local time (23:22 Moscow time on Wednesday), a spokesman for the ...

Mikhail Pichugin, 46, was rescued more than two months after setting off on a trip with his brother and 15-year-old nephew, who both died at sea.

Three trucks were built to take nine people on an expedition from Moscow some 9,942 miles eastward by road to the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on the Kamchatka peninsula, and it earned the ...