Thia monograph provides a systematic catalogue description of all 97 known submarine volcanoes and aeamounts in the Kurile island arc, using materials of the R/V "Vulkanolog" six voyages. Interpretations of their morphostructural features are based on echo sounding, seismic reflection profiling, and characteristics of the magnetic field. Compositions have been determined for 80 of the volcanoes, including petrographic and geochemical data, using dredged material.
During concurrent study of subaerial and submarine volcanoes regularities in their spatial-structural distribution, transverse and longitudinal petrogeochemical, mineral, and isotopic zoning, and xenolith distribution in the lavas have been recognized. Volcanic activity is distributed in the frontal and rear-arc zones. These data are used to develop a model for magma generation with two zones of magma generation related to two levels of volatile separation from the subducting lithospheric plate.

The paper provides results from application of designed modern computer techniques for interpretation of materials from complex geophysical investigation of submarine volcanoes 2.7 and 2.8, which are located west of the south-western coast of Onekotan Island in the Kurile island arc. The research resulted in estimation of rock magnetic properties in natural deposits and revealed that the south-western flanks of submarine volcano 2.8 are the most magnetized with their productive magnetization of about 2 A/m. The authors suggested that the feeding channels of volcano 2.7 stretch southwest, while the feeding channels of volcano 2.8 stretch subverticaly, southwest and southeast. A peripheral magma chamber of the volcano was revealed at the depth of about 650 m.