Kamchatka's tottering post-Soviet economy ... which now constitutes the capital of Itelmen life. Kovran villagers still fish by the traditional methods. But starting in the Soviet era, other ...

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 ...

MOSCOW — A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula early ... the coast including in the region’s capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.