Siberia Trekking - discover Russian nature

Kamchatka is a truly wild and beautiful area of the Earth. Magnificient volcanic landscapes are combined with ocean shore. There is a home for bears, foxes, wolverines and marmots.

Tolbachik is a volcanic complex on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia. It consists of two volcanoes, Plosky (flat) Tolbachik (3085 m) and Ostry (sharp) Tolbachik (3682 m), which as the names suggest are respectively a flat-topped shield volcano and a peaked stratovolcano

There was rainy and cloudy day. We reached camping place and started to set up tents when we saw bear, feeding berries.

Canyon in Stunenaya river.

Sometimes landscape looks unreal like another planet

Ground squirell. These small animals make alarm sounds like birds.

Black-capped marmot (Marmota camtschatica) is endemic to Russia.

Peter is walking with Ushkovskiy volcano in background

We saw few picas. These animals are very common in mountains of Altai and Sayan, but quite rare in Kamchatka

Kamen volcano (4575m), Bezymyanniy (lower one, 2882m), and Klyuchevskaya Sopka (4750m)

Rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus) is soaring above volcano

Morning landscape

Our group with Bezymyanniy volcano in background

We met this bear close to our campsite near Tolbachik pass

Red fox in the field

Curious fox approached to us

Running wolverine in area of Tolud pass

Hiking with volcanoes in background

Rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta)

Mother bear with cub

Young bear

Bolshaya Udina volcano into the clouds

Different colors of autumn in Kamchatka

Our camping in hills

Bolshaya Udina and Tolud pass

Ground squirrell in Kleshnya campsite

Lava fields near Tolbachik volcano. There was recent eruption in 2013-2014

Ascent to Tolbachik