Most of Kamchatka's roughly 400,000 people live in the capital of Petropavlovsk or in several towns such as this one in the north. In the countryside, Kamchatka averages well under one person per ...

The Shiveluch volcano is situated approximately 280 miles from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a coastal city with a population of around 181,000 in Russia's Kamchatka ... the capital of the region.