Refuge

Сарай охотника

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The place

Сарай охотника ("Hunter's shed") in Kamchatka Krai, Elizovo/Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky area (central Kamchatka, Russian Far East, Russia), at 318 m altitude, on the central Kamchatka plain. New Russia Kamchatka cluster appearing at batch 355. Traditional hunter's shed (historic hunting of Kamchatka brown bear Ursus arctos beringianus, a brown subspecies with 15,000-20,000 individuals, the last significant wild population in RU + sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka, 200,000 tonnes/year, 25% of world production across 300 rivers + sable fur Martes zibellina + rare elm Ulmus japonica), an area on the Kamchatka Peninsula, 270,000 km² with an active volcanic arc of 30 volcanoes including Kliuchevskoï at 4750 m, the highest in Europe-Asia + UNESCO 1996 + historic Ainu, an Indigenous people expelled in the 17th century by the Russian Empire, heritage of the Koryaks (a Paleo-Siberian people, 8000, Koryak language, Tungusic-Manchu, shamanism, reindeer-herding pastoralists).

The setting

Kamchatka Elizovo/Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky central Russian Far East RU Russia 318 m central plain, new cluster batch 355, hunter's shed Ursus arctos beringianus 15,000-20,000 + Oncorhynchus nerka 200,000 t/year 25% of world 300 rivers + Martes zibellina + Ulmus japonica, Kamchatka 270,000 km² 30 volcanoes Kliuchevskoï 4750 m highest in Europe-Asia UNESCO 1996 + Ainu expelled 17th century by Russians, Koryaks 8000 Koryak Tungusic-Manchu shamanism reindeer-herding.