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4 unusual facts about Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky


Domodedovo Airlines

In 1978, with an Ilyushin Il-62, the airline started non-stop operations on the longest domestic service in the world, Moscow to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a distance of some 6,800 km.

Kamchadals

A total of 83 North Kuril Ainu arrived in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on September 18, 1877 after they decided to remain under Russian rule.

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

A Just Russia
(including former Rodina or Motherland-National Patriotic Union
Russian Party of Life
People's Party of the Russian Federation
and Russian Ecological Party "The Greens")

Steven Myers

His involvement helped create a refueling base for carriers with international cargo near the city of Petropavlovsk and introduced entrepreneurship into post-Soviet Russia.


Géza Gyóni

They endured together the lengthy nine-month journey between POW receiving areas, travelling between Kiev, Moscow, Alatyr, Petropavlovsk, Omsk and finally to Krasnoyarsk in Siberia.

Petropavlovsk-class battleship

The capture of Hill 203, which overlooked the harbor, on 5 December allowed them to fire directly at the Russian ships and Poltava was sunk in shallow water that same day by a shell that started a fire in a magazine that eventually exploded.

Russian deep submergence rescue vehicle AS-28

On August 6, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian Minister of Defence Sergei Ivanov to fly to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to oversee the rescue operation, which was under the command of the Commander of the Russian Pacific Fleet, Admiral Viktor Fedorov.

Saken Seyfullin

When on June 4, 1918, the White Guard conducted a revolution, Seyfullin was arrested and sent to Petropavlovsk jail.

Shchastya Bay

Theis area became briefly the center of attention of the press in 1936 when Soviet pilot Valery Pavlovich Chkalov flew on an Antonov ANT-25 plane from Moscow through Franz Joseph Land, Severnaya Zemlya, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Khabarovsk.

Varvara Zelenskaya

Zelenskaya began skiing at the age of 6 in her native Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, on the Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia.


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