Koryak Hill Volcano

Koryak hill is the highest in the Kamchatka Territory. Its height reaches almost 3,500 meters. Not every volcano can boast of this. At the top of the hill is a regular shaped crater with small sides. The diameter of the trough is about 200 meters. The crater is covered with centuries-old ice and snow.

The volcano consists of various rocks. The most common - andesite, basalt. In addition, the slopes of the volcano are covered with slag, frozen lava, dust and ash.

At the foot of the Koryak hill there is a forest consisting entirely of stone birch and cedar.

As for volcanic eruptions, they occur periodically, but now they are insignificant than before. The last largest explosion on the Koryak hill occurred around 5000 BC.