Radiocarbon dating is widely used when studying recent volcanic activity in the Kamchatka Peninsula due to the abundance of organic matter that is associated with the volcanic deposits. Here, we present the results of 14C dating of major volcanic events within the active South Kamchatka volcanic zone. South Kamchatka includes 8 recently active volcanic centers (stratovolcanoes, calderas, and large craters) that have been erupting during the Holocene. Their tephras represent useful markers for both the southern part of the peninsula and the Northern Kurile Islands. Since these marker tephra layers facilitate stratigraphic and tephrochronological studies in this area, it was important to determine their ages. We have obtained 73 new individual 14C dates on paleosol, peat, charcoal, and wood associated with the marker tephra layers, then complemented these data with 37 earlier published dates and analyzed the resulting data set. We selected the reliable dates and then obtained average 14C ages of marker tephra layers. The details of these procedures, as well as brief descriptions of South Kamchatka Holocene eruptions and their tephra beds, are presented in the paper.

This paper describes a large landslide that occurred on Zheltovsky Volcano in summer 2012. The article describes main features of the volcanic edifice and considers parameters of the landslide. The landslide was likely caused by the altered rocks in the summit area as well as water infiltration during snow melting. No significant seismic or meteorological events had been registered immediately prior to the landslide. This example shows that large landslides at the volcanic edifices may occur without catastrophic precursors, which makes the hazard assessment more difficult. The paper is based exclusively on the remote sensing data most of which are available online from open sources.

Long-continues field, and air- and space-borne studies of Kamchatkan volcanoes carried out within the framework of the International Russian-American project "Earth Sciences". In conjunction with the use of deep seismic sounding observations, yielded materials of remote sounding which have been mostly processed for the Klyuchevskoy volcanic cluster, this being the most active and productive in Kamchatka. For the first time ever,
a digital map of volcanoes of the Klyuchevskoy cluster to scale 1 : 100000 has been made. All cinder cones were superposed on the map in a system of coordinates with special indication of the cinder cones in the regional zone of areal volcanism and the eruptive centers of bocca eruptions on Klyuchevskoy volcano along with their petrochemical characteristics and ages. This paper also provides information on the "single primary" magma
of Klyuchevskoy Volcano.

We provide new evidence that bears on the geological structure, history of evolution, and structural setting for the Bol’shoi Semyachik Volcanic Massif in Kamchatka. The new Ar–Ar results for dating of volcanic rocks allowed significant advances in updating the stratigraphy and history of the evolution of the area of study. We discuss the distribution of centers of volcanic and hydrothermal activity in the Bol’shoi Semyachik Massif area. The distribution suggests that the volcanism in the area is progressively migrating south eastward. It is shown that all thermal occurrences, such as sets of steam jets, thermal springs, and heated patches (evidence of present-day activity), are also displaced into the southeastern part of the massif. It was concluded that these patterns are not accidental, but are controlled by dipping magma-conducting and fluid-conducting faults that bound a major basement low on the southeast. The low had been identified earlier from geophysical observations. The dip gives the result that the magma and fluids rise to the surface and simultaneously deviate eastward and southeastward, where the youngest occurrences of volcanic activity and present-day thermal features are found today.