Kamchatka Krai occupies the territory of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the adjacent part of the mainland, the islandKaraginsky and Commander Islands. It is bounded to the east by the Bering Sea of the Pacific Ocean and to the west by the Okhotsk Sea. Mountain ranges: Sredinny Range, Eastern Range, Vetveysky, Penzhinsky, Pahachinsky, Olyutorskij et al. Heights: Khuvkhoitun, the Ice, Acute, Shishel, Tylele volcano. Peninsulas : Gavena Peninsula, Ilpinsky Peninsula, Ozernoy Peninsula, Kamchatskiy Pensinula, and the Yelistratova Peninsula. Islands : Verkhoturov Island, Karaginsky Island, the Commander Islands, Ptichy Island, Konus Island, Zubchaty Island, Rovny Island, Dobrzhanskogo Island, Vtoroy Island, Krayniy Island and Trety Island. Despite their proximity the Kuril Islands are not part of Kamchatka Krai, falling instead under Sakhalin Oblast. Kamchatka belongs to the zone of volcanic activity, there are about 300 large and medium-sized volcanoes, 29 of them are active. The largest volcano in Eurasia – Kluchevskaya. With the volcanic activity associated with the formation of many minerals, as well as a manifestation of hydro geo thermal activity: education fumaroles, geysers, hot springs, etc. Despite Kamchatka lying at similar latitudes to Scotland, it is mostly subarctic, more continental in the hinterland and more maritime and prone to monsoons on the coast.
Nature
Most of the peninsula is covered with forests of stone birch, while alder and cedar elfin are commonly found at higher altitudes. In central areas, especially in the Kamchatka River valley, widespread forests of larch and spruce can be found. In floodplains, forests grow with fragrant poplar, alder, Chosenia, and Sakhalin willow. In the second tier, undergrowth such as the common hawthorn, Asian cherry, Kamchatka rowan, and shrubs growing Kamchatka elderberries, Kamchatka honeysuckle, meadowsweet, willow shrubs, and many other species. More than 14.5% of the territory of the Kamchatka Territory is specially protected. There are six protected areas of federal significance ; four natural parks of regional significance ; 22 reserve of regional importance; 116 monuments of nature; four protected areas. Kronotsky Nature Reserve is a nature area reserved for the study of natural sciences in the remote Russian Far East, on the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. It was created in 1934 and its current boundary contains an area of. It also 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". It is mainly accessible only to scientists, plus approximately 3,000 tourists annually who pay a fee equivalent to US$700 to travel by helicopter for a single day's visit. Kronotsky Nature Reserve has been proclaimed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
After nearly two decades, Kamchatka recorded a net natural population growth instead of decline in 2007. However, in first half of 2008, the trend was reversed and population decline was observed again, partly due to an increased mortality rate among the rural population.
28,084 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.
