Welcome to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky!
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Russian: Петропа́вловск-камча́тский) is the capital and largest city on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. It is a port city on Avacha Bay and is surrounded by high, snow-capped mountains and volcanoes. This city of roughly 200,000 residents is the principal entry point for travelers visiting the peninsula, and has good tourist infrastructure, offering anything from wildlife viewing to bear hunting to paragliding.
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Russian: Петропавловск-Камчатский) is a city and the administrative, industrial, scientific, and cultural center of Kamchatka Krai, Russia. Its population is 179,780.
The city is widely known simply as Petropavlovsk (literally "city of Peter and Paul"). The adjective Kamchatsky ("Kamchatkan") was added to the official name in 1924.