Kamchatka is a volcanic region of great interest.
About 100.000 km2 are covered by recent and quaternary lavas and tuffs; there are 20 volcanoes, active and solfatoric, 109 extinct volcanoes, 68 groups of thermal springs, 17 large and many small geysers. The Klyuchevskoy volcano is the most active one with a most varied volcanic activity. Besides, it is situated at the juncture of the Kourilsk-Kamchatka and Aleutian volcanic and tectonic arcs.
This fact explains for the organization of a volcanological station in the vicinity of the Klyuchevskoy volcano.
Since the station has been in existence, i. e, sinece 1935 the following eruptions have been recorded: the explosive eruption of the Klyuchevskoy volcano in 1935, and with lava flows from April 1937 till March 1939, and with formation of a number of parasitic craters; the eruption of Avacha from March till December 1938 accompanied by the issuing of an incandescent agglomerate stream rather the kind of the avalanche of the La Soufriere, the Merapi and partly the Mont Pele; the eruption of the Ploskij Tolbachik from September 1939 till June 1941, at the end of which a parasitic cone was formed from which flows issued; a small explosion of the Zhupanov volcano in the beginning of 1940; an eruption of the Karim volcano during 1940 and in the beginning of 1943.
Owing to the almost simultaneous ejection of lava at different heigtsts and at different distances from the central conduite of the Kluchevskoy volcano S. I. Naboko could drawn a picture of the gravitative differentiation in the magmatic reservoir.
There are given temperatures of the flowing bazaltic lava taken by V. P. Popkov and I. Z. Ivanov during their remarkable drift on the crust of the lava stream as well as the composition of gases collected by them from the hot lava.
A number of other volcanological observations is also given as well as short description of the volcanological station.
The Kamchatka Station was organized by F. I. Loevinson-Lessing. Since 1940 the station has been run by A. N. Zavaritsky, who is now organizing a Laboratory of Volcanology in Moscow.

The Klyuchevskaya volcanic group of Kamchatka is unique in many respects: it includes 13 volcanoes, four of which are active; Klyuchevskoy volcano is the youngest and the most active of Kamchatka; the contrast (basaltic and andesitic) volcanism is observed within the relatively small area of this group. This work provides a general scheme of principal fault zones in the area of the Klyuchevskaya volcanic group superimposed on satellite data of middle and high resolution (MODIS, SRTM, ASTER, Landsat, Meteor-M, Kanopus-B and the others). The scheme of the fault zones was created on the basis of the analysis of a set of various published materials and numerous satellite data of different resolution, as well as on the author’s studies of the Klyuchevskaya group volcanoes. All faults at the scheme were well expressed in all examined satellite images. It is shown that the faults ever formed here are long-lived and their activity is associated with certain stages of the evolution of the Klyuchevskaya volcanic group. The formation of all volcanoes of this group mainly happens owing to faults of the northwest, northeast and west-northwest directions. For example, the current activity of Klyuchevskoy volcano is associated probably with the northwest and northeast striking faults; right-hand downthrow-upheaval movements along the faults of the north-northeast directions are likely to have led at different times to the collapse of the eastern parts of the volcanoes Ostry Tolbachik and Kamen.

Данная книга — первое переиздание выпущенного в Санкт-Петербурге Российской Императорской академией наук в 1901 году научного труда известного исследователя Камчатки середины XIX века Карла фон Дитмара.
К книге прилагается "Карта Камчатки, пополненная по дневникам своих путешествий К. Дитмаром, 1889". На вклейках — иллюстрации из издания 1901 года: рисунки "Вид Авачинской губы с Петропавловском и Корякской сопкой", "Вид Петропавловска. Середина XIX века", "Порт Петра и Павла. Старинная гравюра" и "Геологическая карта Авачинской губы".
Текст сопровождается иллюстрациями: схематическими рисунками и картосхемами (планами).
Авт. ст. от изд-ва Е.В. Гропянов ; рецензент и науч. ред. И.В. Мелекесцев ; авт. предисл. к камч. изданию И.В. Мелекесцев. — [Переизд. по: Дитмар К. Поездки и пребывание в Камчатке в 1851–1855 гг. — Ч. 1 : Исторический отчет по путевым дневникам. — СПб., 1901].