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The Kamchatka Peninsula [a] (Russian: ... (the original Russian name for the Itelmens) came to mean any Russian or part-Russian born on the peninsula. ...
Kamchatka is located in a zone of volcanic activity, around 300 large and medium-sized volcanoes are located within its borders, 29 of which are active. This includes the largest volcano in Eurasia, Mount Kluchevskaya (altitude 4,750 m (15,580 ft)). Kamchatka's latitude is similar to that of Scotland, but its climate is rated as subarctic. Its ...
Kamchatka River. The Kamchatka (Russian: Камча́тка) is the longest river in Kamchatka peninsula, located in Kamchatka Krai in the Russian Far East.It flows into the Pacific Ocean at the town Ust-Kamchatsk, on the east coast of Kamchatka.
When a distinction is desirable, "krai" is sometimes translated into English as "territory", [3] (closer to "edge" in literal translation, what's more related with the March meaning as a "borderland") while "oblast" can variously be translated to "province" or "region", but both of these translations are also reasonable interpretations of "krai".
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Russian: Петропавловск-Камчатский, IPA: [pʲɪtrɐˈpavləfsk kɐmˈtɕatskʲɪj] ⓘ) is a city and the administrative center of Kamchatka Krai, Russia.
Itelmens tended to settle along the various rivers of the Kamchatka Peninsula. At the time of the arrival of the first Cossacks to the peninsula, in the early 1650s, villages numbered between 200 and 300 residents, a number which had dwindled to 40 or 50 at most by the time of the composition of Steller's account in 1744.
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Kamchatkan (Kamchatic) is a former dialect cluster spoken on the Kamchatka Peninsula.It now consists of a single language, Western Itelmen (also called Western Kamchadal). It had 100 or fewer speakers in 1991, mostly of the older generation.