Russia's Kamchatka Territory was formed on July 1, 2007. The region occupies the territory of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the adjacent part of the mainland, the island Karaginsky and Commander Islands. The region's administrative center is the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Take a look at these breathtaking images of Russia’s wild East - in this gallery by TASS.
Kamchatka's natural beauty captured by TASS photographer
Orcars, bears and sea lions - take a look at stunning images of Russia's wild East
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An aerial view of a Shipunsky Peninsula cape on Morzhovy Island in the Kronotsky Gulf
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS A lighthouse on Cape Green in Viluchinskaya bay on the southern coast of Kamchatka Peninsula
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS Abandoned ships in the Russkaya Bay of the Avacha Gulf on the southeastern coast of Kamchatka Peninsula
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS A beacon in the Russkaya Bay of the Avacha Gulf on the south-eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS View of Cape Green in Viluchinskaya bay on the southern coast of Kamchatka Peninsula
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS Steller sea lions haul out in the Zheleznaya Bay on the southeastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS Avacha Bay on the southeastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS A picturesque stack, or kekur, near Starichkov Island in the southern part of Avacha Bay
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS A lighthouse on Cape Green in Viluchinskaya bay on the southern coast of Kamchatka Peninsula
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS A brown bear on Shipunsky Peninsula
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS Russkaya Bay of the Avacha Gulf on the south-eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS A rusty Soviet whaling ship in the Morzhovy Ugol Bay off Shipunsky Peninsula
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS, archive Orcas in Avacha Bay off Kamchatka Peninsula on Russia's Pacific coast
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS