Kamchatka Protected Areas Association

to see with one’s eyes,
and traverse with one’s feet…

portal for Kamchatka’s protected areas
portal for Kamchatka’s protected areas

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Kluchevskoy Park


Reasons to Visit

Reasons to Visit

Established on December 14, 1999, Klyuchevskoy Nature Park is Kamchatka’s youngest park. The park is named after Klyuchevskoy Volcano, which with an elevation of 4750 meters is the tallest active volcano in Eurasia. ...More info


Getting Here

Getting Here

Klyuchevskoy Park is located more than 500 km from the capital of Kamchatka, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. It can be reached by car, bus or helicopter. ...More info


Park Territory

Park Territory

Klyuchevskoy Park is called the “Land of Fire and Ice”: here you will find nearly 400 cinder cones and 12 volcanoes, including one of Kamchatka’s most stunning volcanoes, Klyuchevskoy. With an elevation of 4750 meters, Klyuchevskoy is the highest active volcano in Eurasia. ...More info


Fauna

Fauna

Klyuchevskoy Park is home to big-horn sheep, moose, wolverines, lynx, black-capped marmots, hares, and, of course, the tsar of Kamchatka’s forests — the Kamchatka brown bear. Wild ducks, geese, partridge, black-billed capercaillie, swans and Stellar’s sea eagles all nest here. ...More info


Flora

Flora

The plant world of Klyuchevskoy Park is very diverse: spruce, larch and birch forests surround the park on almost all sides, while alpine meadows and mountain tundras spread out like bright carpets at the base of volcanoes. ...More info


Tourist Trails

Tourist Trails

The volcanoes and glaciers of Klyuchevskoy Park are structurally unique and beautiful natural monuments, but they are not museum exhibits: they live, breathe and change! Tours around the park will be interesting for everyone, from professional volcanologists and geologists to those only beginning to learn about the origin and structure of the Earth, to those who have never even thought about it. Our volcanoes won’t leave anyone indifferent. ...More info


Trail Map

Trail Map

1. “On the Path of Recent Eruptions” Trail  
2. “Kamchatka Heights” Trail
3. “Fire and Ice” Trail
4. “Three Volcanoes” Trail
5. “Around the Tolbachiks” Trail
6. “Tolbachiki” Trail
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Contact information:

• 683031, Kamchatsky Krai, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Prospect Karla Marksa 29/1, office 402, tel. (41522) 9-07-23 

tel. / fax (41522) 9-07-23

• 684405, Kamchatsky Krai, Ust-Kamchatsky raion, p. Kozyrevsk, ul. Sovetskaya, dom 2, kv.2.

E-mail:
kluchevskoi_park@mail.kamchatka.ru

Всемирный фонд дикой природы Сохранение биоразнообразия Камчатки UNDP Россия Global Environment Facility Canadian International Development Agency CIDA
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© 2007–2012
   
 Kamchatka Protected Areas Association
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 Texts are translated by Cheryl Hojnowski