Ichinsky

Ichinsky
Ultra
Coordinates	55°40′42″N 157°43′06″E / 55.67833°N 157.71833°E / 55.67833; 157.71833[1]
Geography
Ichinsky Location in Kamchatka Krai , Russia
Location	Kamchatka, Russia
Parent range	Sredinny Range
Geology
Age of rock	Pleistocene–Holocene
Mountain type	Stratovolcano
Last eruption	1740

Ichinsky (Russian: Ичинский вулкан or Ичинская сопка, Ichinskaya sopka) is a large stratovolcano located in the central part of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. At 3,607 metres (11,834 ft), it is the highest peak of the Sredinny Range, the central range of the peninsula. Ichinsky is also among the largest volcanoes in Kamchatka, with a volume of about 450 cubic kilometres (110 cu mi).

The volcano is capped by a 3-by-5-kilometre (2 by 3 mi) summit

activity within the caldera.

A dozen more

extand form the lower flanks, some as long as 10–15 kilometres (6.2–9.3 mi).

See also

• List of volcanoes in Russia
• List of ultras of Northeast Asia

References

Sources

• "Ichinsky". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
• Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Kamchatka: Ichinsky
• Sviatlovskii, A. E. (Aleksandr Evgenevich) (1959). Aтлас Вулканов СССР / Atlas of Volcanoes of the USSR. Moskva: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR. p. 176 pp. (in Russian, with brief English summaries)
• Fedotov, S. A.; Masurenkov, Yu. P., eds. (1991). Действующие Вулканы Камчатки / Active Volcanoes of Kamchatka. Moskva: Izd-vo Nauka. Vol. 1, 304 pp. and Vol. 2, 416 pp.
  ISBN 5-02-003377-4
  . (in Russian, with English summaries)