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 ...

These eagles are believed to breed only in far eastern Russia, along the coasts and surrounding islands of the Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea. They are most common on the Kamchatka Peninsula.

Volcanoes are a place that seems as though no animal would want to ... volcanic home. Kamchatka brown bears live in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, a region full of active volcanoes.

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 ...

The Kamchatka ... marine animals were revealed in Bolshaya Lagernaya and Malaya Lagernaya bays and in Babya's bay. Deputy Prime Minister and Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian ...