Klyuchi, Kamchatka Krai

Kljutschi (Russian Ключи ) is a village in the region of Kamchatka (Russia) with 5726 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The village is situated in the central sink the Kamchatka Kamchatka Peninsula on the right bank of the same river Kamchatka. On the opposite, the northern shore of Kamchatka, the 1400 meter high extinct volcano Chertschanskaja rises. 30 kilometers south of the village is the highest volcano with 4750 meters of Eurasia, the Klyuchevskaya Sopka, whose foot to Kljutschi ranges, while located 40 kilometers northeast of December 2006 again very active, over 3000 meters high Shiveluch rises, the last strong eruption at September 14, 2008 occurred when he threw out smoke and ash up to 6.5 km in height and broke a part of the crater.

Kljutschi is located about 450 kilometers north of the regional capital Petropavlovsk -Kamchatsky. The place belongs to Rajon Ust- Kamchatka, whose administrative center, the urban-type settlement Ust- Kamchatka, about 100 kilometers to the east at the mouth of the Kamchatka in the Pacific Ocean lies.

History

The village Kljutschi ( a Russian word for sources) was founded in 1741 new, having already passed one of the first Russian settlements on Kamchatka under the name Nishne - Kamchatka since about 1701 in the area. From here started Vitus Bering in 1728 his first Kamchatka expedition. 1731 this settlement during an uprising of the natives ( " Kamchadals " ) was burned, abandoned by the Russians, and not far from the Kamtschatkamündung rebuilt ( again today uninhabited ).

The settlement Kljutschi remained negligible until the 20th century, when in 1932 a forestry and wood processing plants were built. In 1951, the status of an urban-type settlement was awarded in 1979 the municipal law. As a result of the economic crisis of the 1990s, the population decreased rapidly, and Kljutschi lost the 2004 city status.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

Since 1935 there is a Volcanological Station of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Eastern Section of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Kljutschi.

Kljutschi is one of the starting points for visiting the Klyuchevskaya Sopka.

Economy and infrastructure

In Kljutschi there are smaller companies in the forestry and wood-processing industry and for the processing of agricultural products and fish.

The place is the end of a road that runs from Petropavlovsk -Kamchatsky by the central sink of the peninsula to the north. Southwest is a small airport.