A detailed reexamination of the deposits and comparison with the descriptions of the eruption revealed that on March 30, 1956, a collapse and a landslide 0.5 km3 in volume took place on the eastern slope of Bezymyannyi (Central Kamchatka). After a series of explosions, an old dome was slowly uplifted by rising magma, and a cryptodome intruded the eastern flank prior to a cataclysmic explosion. A rockslide changed to a cold (< 100°C) debris avalanche which rushed down at a speed of more than 60 m/s and covered a distance of 10 km from the volcano. The avalanche split into three branches that flowed along the river valleys. The central flow covered the largest distance (22 km). The avalanche stripped and pushed the material at the volcano's foot (snow, soil, alluvium, and vegetation), which produced long mud flows. The landslide unroofed the cryptodome and triggering a devastating lateral blast followed by the eruption of pyroclastic flows.

The chronology, dynamics, and parameters of seven large eruptions of Avacha Volcano were reconstructed for its IAv andesitic period 7250-370014C years B.P., which began after a >2000-year period of relative quiescence. Their juvenile (andesitic pyroclastics) and resurgent products are described, and the geological and geomorphological consequences are evaluated. The largest eruption occurred 715014C years B.P. (8-10 km3 of erupted material). The subsequent events occurred 5700 (≥0.34 km3), 5600 (≥0.4 km3), 5500 (>1.34 km3), 5000 (≥0.5 km3), 4500 (>1.1 km3), and 4000 (≥0.6 km3) 14C years B.P. The erupted rocks were dominated by tephra; pyroclastic flows occurred only during the events of 5500 and 5000 years ago. It is believed that most of the eruptions produced acid peaks of varying intensity in the Greenland ice sheet.

This paper presents the results of studying the spatial distribution and structural setting of magnesian basalts and andesites in the Northern group of Kamchatkan volcanoes and in the junction zone of the Kuril-Kamchatka and Aleutian island arcs. The morphology and geologic structure of unique Kamchatkan magnesian basalt stratovolcanoes are described: Kharchinsky, Zarechnyi, and the Kharchinsky regional zone of cinder cones. The reported evidence includes the ages and eruptive histories, and productivities of the volcanoes and the volumes and weights of their edifices. The magnesian basalts were erupted 40-50 thousand years ago, for the first time during the Holocene.