Volcano Young Sheveluch is one of the most active volcanoes in Kamchatka. Since August 1980 to the present time, an extrusive dome has been growing in the crater of the volcano. Plastic lavas in the form of large ribbons were noted on the dome already in 1980–1981, the first lava flow was observed after a paroxysmal eruption on May 9, 2004. The next large block of lava started to extrude in the end of April – beginning of May 2020. By June, 11th, it rose above the dome on 50–80 m, and up to 120 m by the end of October. On September 28, it was noted that the lava block acquired smooth surfaces. Portions of lava squeezed out from inside of the volcano in August – September were plastic. By December 8, the block had collapsed. In February 2021, a new block of plastic lava began to rise from the destroyed block. In March its height above the dome exceeded 50–60 m, and 200 m in June.

В июне 2019 г. на небольшом острове-вулкане Райкоке, расположенном в центральной части Курильской дуги, произошло короткое, но сильное эксплозивное извержение, кульминационная стадия которого продолжалась 3.5 ч, высота пеплового облака достигла 13 км. Анализ серии спутниковых изображений в сочетании с наземными исследованиями позволили охарактеризовать пирокластические отложения извержения и определить масштаб их воздействия на экосистемы острова. Установлено, что извержение имело фреатомагматический субплинианский–плинианский характер.

This report gives a brief description of field work on the Kuril Islands in summer 2021 carried out by staff of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of  FEB RAS within the framework of the Institute research theme and projects of the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) and Russian Fund for Basic Research (RFBR). To study chemical erosion of volcanic islands and to estimate hydrothermal export of magmatic volatiles, hydrological and hydrochemical works were carried out on the rivers draining the slopes and thermal fields of the Baransky volcano and the Bogdan Khmelnitsky volcanic massif (Iturup Island). Detailed hydrochemical studies with water sampling at different depths and a bathymetric survey of Lake Kipyashchey located in the caldera of Golovnin volcano (Kunashir Island) were performed. We also proceeded with studying the CO2 diffusion flux through thermal fields and volcanic lakes. In the course of ongoing regime observations on Ebeko volcano (Paramushir Island), aerial and infrared imaging of its near-crater part was carried out. For the first time since the eruption began in 2016, a quadcopter survey of the lake located in the Srednii (middle) crater of the volcano was conducted. For further analytical studies a large number of water and gas samples were taken, and the collection of sediments was replenished.

В книге публикуются полевые дневники известного советского вулканолога,
основателя и первого директора Института вулканологии ДВО РАН на Камчатке,
члена-корреспондента Академии наук СССР Бориса Ивановича Пийпа (6.11.1906–10.03.1966), а также воспоминания о нем и его переписка. В книге описаны экспедиции 1931–1954 гг. на Ключевскую группу вулканов, на вулканы Авачинский, Шивелуч, Толбачик, в кальдеру Узон, на термальные ключи
Центральной и Северной Камчатки и на Курильские острова для изучения последствий цунами 1952 г.
Книга приурочена к 115-летию с даты рождения Б.И. Пийпа.

Ichinsky volcano is the largest volcanic structure of the Sredinny Range of Kamchatka. The manifestation of fumarole activity on the northern slope of the volcano is known since 1956. 64 years after the discovery of the Ledovaya fumarole, it was inspected with a quadrocopter. It was found that the fumarole is located at an altitude of 2725 m and is a large funnel up to 60 m in size, covered with snow in the middle part. In the upper part of the funnel there is a hole in the ice mass 9.8 m in diameter, with vapor-gas clouds rising up to 5–10 m above its edge.. The walls of the ice well are covered with a grayish-yellow fouling of sublimations. The authors believe that the probable temperature of the vapor-gas mixture of fumaroles at the outlet of the volcano rocks is significantly higher than 100° C.

The article presents new petrogeochemical data on the Middle Miocene-Pliocene volcanic rocks from central part of Iturup Island (Great Kurile Chain). It is shown that volcanism of the Middle Miocene-Early Pliocene age in the central part of the Iturup Island took place in a suprasubduction setting. The distribution of high field strength elements (HFSE) and their ratio in the basaltoids indicate their formation upon partial melting of the depleted upper mantle, while the enrichment of rocks with large ionic lithophilic elements (LILE) indicates both a fluid mantle additive introduced into the melts during the evolution of primary magma and the participation of a low-temperature suprasubduction fluid. The established differences in the composition of the basaltoids of the frontal and rear zones due to the limited number of analyzed samples are considered preliminary. Thus, basaltoids in the rear zone are distinguished by higher concentrations of Th, Pb, HFSE (Nb, Zr, Y, Hf), relative enrichment in LREE, pronounced negative Zr and Hf anomalies, and positive Eu.

Based on the study of the waveforms and spectral composition of earthquakes recorded during the activation of Avachinsky volcano in 2019, three generally accepted types of volcanic earthquakes (VE) were identified: volcano-tectonic, hybrid and long-period, as well as the fourth – a “special” type of VE, characterized by differ of waveforms. 15 plane-oriented clusters have been identified and the characteristics of seismogenic areas
have been determined. Analysis of the seismic events recorded in autumn 2019 in the Young Cone of Avachinsky Volcano suggested a connection between the activation of the 1991 eruption in the body of the cone and their interaction with atmospheric precipitation with magmatic bodies. The most likely cause of the light flashes over the crater on December 8 is the interaction of a hydrogen-rich volcanic gas in contact with atmospheric oxygen.