Krenitsyn volcano

Krenitsyn volcano is an unusual form - a volcano in a volcano. Its height is just over 1000 meters. At the top of the main elevation is exactly cut crater. Its cavity occupies the Lake Ring, filled with water with the help of natural precipitation and small mountain streams. The diameter of the reservoir is about seven kilometers. It is surrounded by the remains of an ancient destroyed volcano. In the center of the ring towers another sharp cone with a height of just over 500 meters. The diameter of the cone platform is approximately 17 kilometers.

The structure of the volcano consists of a variety of rocks basalt and andesites. On the slopes of the main cone, frozen flows of burning lava have been preserved, which are more than one hundred years old. At the foot of Krenitsyn, the territory was filled with cedar stlanik and stone birch.