List of volcanoes in Russia
Appearance
This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Russia.
European Russia
[edit]Name | Elevation (m) |
Elevation (ft) |
Coordinates | Area | Last eruption |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kazbek | 5033 | 16,512 | 42°31′N 44°19′E / 42.51°N 44.31°E | Caucasus Mountains | 750 BC |
Elbrus | 5642 | 18,510 | 43°20′N 42°27′E / 43.33°N 42.45°E | Caucasus Mountains | 50 AD |
Kamchatka
[edit]Volcanoes of the Kamchatka Peninsula of the northwestern Pacific Ocean and the Russian Far East.
Kuril Islands
[edit]Volcanoes of the Kuril Islands, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between the Kamchatka Peninsula and Japan.
Other parts of Russia
[edit]Name | Elevation (m) |
Elevation (ft) |
Coordinates | Area | Last eruption |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aluchin | 66°06′N 165°24′E / 66.1°N 165.4°E | Chukchi Peninsula | 1000 AD? | ||
Anyuyskiy | 1054 | 3,458 | 67°10′27″N 165°50′8″E / 67.17417°N 165.83556°E | Anyuy Mountains | Pleistocene - Holocene? |
Azas Plateau | 2765 | 9071 | 53°32′N 98°36′E / 53.53°N 98.60°E | west of Lake Baikal | - |
Balagan-Tas | 993 | 3258 | 66°26′N 143°44′E / 66.43°N 143.73°E | Chersky Range, Siberia | 1775 |
Jom-Bolok volcanic field | 52°42′0″N 98°58′48″E / 52.70000°N 98.98000°E | west of Lake Baikal | 682-779 CE | ||
Khulugayshi | 52°00′N 102°30′E / 52°N 102.5°E | west of Lake Baikal | Quaternary | ||
Oka Plateau | 2077 | 6814 | 53°42′N 98°59′E / 53.70°N 98.98°E | between Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk | - |
Tunkin Depression | 1200 | 3937 | 51°30′N 102°30′E / 51.50°N 102.50°E | west of Lake Baikal | Holocene |
Udokan Plateau | 2180 | 7152 | 56°17′N 117°46′E / 56.28°N 117.77°E | northeast of Lake Baikal | 220 BC |
Example
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/ISS-38_Kliuchevskoi_Volcano_on_Kamchatka.jpg/400px-ISS-38_Kliuchevskoi_Volcano_on_Kamchatka.jpg)
References
[edit]- Siebert L, Simkin T (2002–present). Volcanoes of the World: an Illustrated Catalog of Holocene Volcanoes and their Eruptions. Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program Digital Information Series, GVP-3 (http://www.volcano.si.edu).