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Recurrent blasts sometimes tear the lid off Avachinsky (foreground), distinguishing it from the quieter Koryaksky. Both watch over the largest city, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a fishing center whose 200,000 residents live in buildings made of a concrete rich in volcanic cinders. Read the National Geographic article Russia’s Frozen Inferno to learn more.

 
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