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14.07.2008 Kamchatka – Russia’s fishing peninsula – celebrates the Fisher’s Day on Sunday
Kamchatka – Russia’s fishing peninsula – celebrates the Fisher’s Day on Sunday.

12.05.2008 Karymsky volcano on Kamchatka spews ash column to 4,5 km
The Karymsky volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula has spewed an ash column to a height of 4.5 kilometres above sea level. There is no danger to nearby settlements, told the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

06.03.2008 Special economic port zones may appear in Kamchatka
Special economic port zones may appear in Kamchatka too. The Government of the region is preparing the documents for participation in the contest. The possibility of assignment to the port zones of several territories on the coast of the Avacha Bay is being studied.

12.02.2008 The pollock fishing season in the Sea of Okhotsk has entered the active phase
Main winter fishing in the Sea of Okhotsk has entered its active phase. Virtually the entire extractive middle-tonnage and large-tonnage fleet of the Far Eastern fishery enterprises is now in the Okhotsk pollock fishing areas, reported the Ministry of Fisheries of Kamchatka territory.

29.11.2007 Russian woman gives birth to quadruplets
A woman from the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East has given birth to quadruplets, a source in the local administration said on Tuesday.

19.11.2007 The consul general of Japan goes to Kamchatka
A delegation of the Consulate general of japan arrives to Vladivostok On the 20th of Kamchatka headed by the consul general Mr. Kamohara.

13.10.2007 The restoration period after the mud flows in the Geyser Valley is over
The representatives of the Rosprirodnadzor have arrived to peninsula to evaluate the amount of accomplished work.

27.09.2007 Geysers Re-Emerge in Damaged Russia Valley - WWF
he best-known geysers of a cluster hidden in a remote Russian valley hit earlier this year by a landslide have re-emerged, a leading environmentalist group said on Wednesday.

21.09.2007 A festival of educational ideas and innovations has started in Kamchatka
A festival of ideas and innovations in education that is supposed to help practical teachers to orientate in the variety of modern multimedia means to use it effectively in their pedagogic practice has started.

24.08.2007 UNESCO will estimate the conditions of “Kamchatka’s Volcanoes”
From 29th of August till 5th of September the experts of UNESCO delegation headed by the representative of the UNESCO center of world Heritage Guy Dabonnet and expert David Michalic.

02.08.2007 Russian police seize 100 metric tons of illegally-caught salmon
Police in Russia\'s Far East have seized in the past 24 hours more than 100 metric tons of salmon illegally caught in the Pacific, a police spokeswoman said Tuesday.