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 ...

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 ...