Ust-Kamchatsk

Ust-Kamchatsk () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Ust-Kamchatsky District of Kamchatka Krai, Russia, located on the eastern shore of the Kamchatka Peninsula at the mouth of the Kamchatka River some away from the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano and from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Population:

Key facts

Russian inhabited locality.en_name: Ust-Kamchatsk
Russian inhabited locality.ru_name: Усть-Камчатск
Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat: Rural locality
Russian inhabited locality.image_coa: Coat of Arms of Ust-Kamchatsk (Nizhnekamchatsk Kamchatka oblast) (1790).png
Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject: Kamchatka Krai
Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur: Ust-Kamchatsky District
Russian inhabited locality.established_date: 1731
Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census: 4352
Russian inhabited locality.pop_latest_date: 2021
Russian inhabited locality.pop_latest: 3548
Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of: Ust-Kamchatsky District
Russian inhabited locality.postal_codes: 684412-684415
Russian inhabited locality.dialing_codes: 41534

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of: port
Country: Soviet Union
Population: 3548
Capital of: Ust-Kamchatsky District
Official website: ustkamchatsk.ru
Dialing code: 41534

Show 2 more facts

inception: 1731-01-01
postal code: 684412–684415

Sources (1)

wikidata.org

via Wikidata · CC0

~2 min read

Encyclopedic overview

4 sections

Contents

History
Economy
Climate
References

== History == It was founded in 1731 as the settlement of Ust-Primorsky () and was renamed Ust-Kamchatsk in 1890. In 2007, Ust-Kamchatsk was demoted in status from urban-type settlement to a rural locality.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ust-Kamchatsk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.