Is it possible to swim in Kamchatka in summer? How much does life cost in Kamchatka?

Kamchatka is the outskirts of Russian land. I’ll tell you why you should come here, how to visit volcanoes for free, get paid for it, not be afraid of bears and be a good guy.

If you haven’t heard anything about the volcano peninsula, and the word Kamchatka evokes associations with the unattainable beauty of wild places, then you simply haven’t seen these photos and haven’t come across thoughtful notes from good travelers on the Internet.

In fact, everything is extremely simple (as in any business), and in the case of Kamchatka it can turn out to be pleasantly cheap and as accessible as possible.

A little bonus: tickets from Vladivostok and from Moscow to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky are sold at the same price, despite the huge difference in distance, and if you buy at least two weeks in advance, you can find them for 12 thousand rubles one way. I don't think that's a lot.

What I saw while flying over Kamchatka cannot be compared with any Indonesia... whole complexes of volcanoes, colored lakes, rivers, hills, forests... I didn’t even think that this could happen, not just somewhere there, but in our native Russia! If you're wondering whether it's worth it or not, then rest assured, it's a definite YES!

Where to stay

In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and the main tourist spots there are hotels, apartments for rent and recreation centers. You can find recreation centers through a search engine or on site, and a hotel in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky can be selected and booked in advance based on reviews and ratings:

You can also stay with local residents by booking an apartment through the website. Apartments for daily rent in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky through this site cost an average of $45 per day (from $20 to $80).

How to travel around Kamchatka

Season for traveling around Kamchatka- from July to September. But all year round you can take commercial tours and excursions here, travel to the volcanoes on your own, or join a travel company and earn money by visiting volcanoes - you choose which side you end up on.

The cost of tours in Kamchatka is high, and visiting all territories is free, that is, permits have not yet been introduced here.

Tours and excursions in Kamchatka

If you have money and you just came to relax, then a huge number of tourism organizations are at your service; choose any hikes and excursions upon arrival on the spot or through websites that offer tours.

Hitchhiking and buses in Kamchatka

You can also take the position of a tramp who is not interested in money and company, open maps.me maps and feel free to travel along the indicated paths, as I do, for example.

Hitchhiking in Kamchatka very pleasant, the locals are kind, relaxed, they are always interested in who you are, where you are from, how things are on the mainland..

Bus Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky - Ust-Kamchatsk costs 3,000 rubles and this is the farthest distance, therefore all other routes are within this amount.

Around Kamchatka in a rented car

In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky you can rent a car for independent travel. The cost, depending on the season and car brand, is 2-4 thousand rubles per day (on average). Gasoline in Kamchatka costs around 44 rubles/liter. You can go around a lot of steep places, with the exception of some where only a snowmobile or ZIL can go, or peaks and volcanoes where you can only climb with your feet.

Work in Kamchatka and travel for a salary

If you are ready to work, but it seems to you that you can’t do anything special, then know: you know more than enough.

Who is needed? Current needs include: a cook (preparing food for hikes, fishing, rafting), a porter (carrying backpacks for pampered tourists), an assistant guide, or a guide himself (we download routes, read literature and lead a group, if we have the appropriate experience, of course), or translator (very relevant).

Salary on average five thousand a day, hikes on average every week, the highest season is July, August, half of September. If you know languages ​​other than English, they pay quite nicely.

About prices in Kamchatka

In general, prices in Kamchatka are not as exorbitant as is commonly thought, if you do not take into account fruits and dairy products.

Half a liter of kefir costs 70 rubles; in principle, you can live magically with this, especially if you earn money here. A loaf of bread costs 30 rubles, canned food is the same as in any town on the mainland.

Otherwise, everything here is the same as everywhere else: there are billiards, bathhouses, cafes and taxis.

Hiking and rafting costs vary, visiting the territories themselves is free, and prices for hikes and excursions are crazy, so be wiser, download maps to your phones and go on a trip yourself. You will definitely fall in love with the volcano peninsula, there is no other way here.

What to see in Kamchatka

There are only two cities in Kamchatka: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (PK) and Yelizovo, all junctions, road and public, are tied around them. First of all, we get into the PC and from there we move on in a rented car or hitchhiking - whoever is up to it.

Sopka Mishennaya

The first thing everyone should visit is the observation hill in the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Mishennaya Hill, stop “6 km”), from there there is a cool view of the city, bay, ocean and two main volcanoes on the horizon.

Volcanoes of Kamchatka

All volcanoes are located in separate groups, and some of them can be reached by road, sometimes even paved. Some territories are protected areas (the Kronotskoye Lake area, the area) and can only be reached there by helicopter and for a lot of money.

Of course, you can walk on foot in good weather in a couple of days, but if you get caught, then for lack of permission you will get into administrative trouble at best (I personally rebelled on a hike, but snow and common sense stopped us).

You can get a job there as a volunteer - it’s no problem, just like that airstop No one has canceled it yet, it also works (if you agree with the pilot, you can fly for free).

The nearest group of volcanoes can be reached in two hours from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Just open the maps.me map, find the Avachinskaya Sopka volcano, look where the path leading from it leads, and go to that point. If you hitchhike, then from the highway you will need to travel another 16 kilometers along the trail (if there are cars, of course, they will give you a lift), and you can safely set up a tent camp in the bushes at the foot.

Avachinskaya Sopka

This is the easiest volcano from where you can see incredible beauty with minimal effort. In summer, this is the level of a simple walk, and we walked in bad weather in the snow and in strong winds, this was my most difficult climb (and I did a lot). The volcano is active and periodically vibrates and makes humming sounds, sometimes stones fly out of the crater, but this does not bother anyone. The rock on the volcano is red, the fumaroles are doing their thing, the steam is coming out in two streams, the top is quite hot, by descending into the crater you can hide from the wind and drink tea and chocolate!

Koryak hill

Opposite Avachinsky there is the Koryakskaya Sopka volcano (3456 meters). All the locals say that only equipped professional climbers go to it and the routes to it are not registered at the base. We found route 1 B on the Internet and conquered it the day after Avachinsky. We were incredibly lucky with the weather, the sun was shining and there was absolutely no wind.

The most beautiful landscapes of this group can be observed from the Kozelsky volcano; the path to it leads through Avachinsky.

Group of Gorely and Mutnovsky volcanoes

From Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky you can take a bus to the village of Termalny (95 rubles) and turn onto the Mutnovskaya GeoPP, this is the road to another group of volcanoes, which is famous for its cosmic landscapes.

I went to Gorely volcano in the evening and spent the night with a tent in the forest, not reaching 35 kilometers. I pitched my tent at the campsite and decided that I didn’t want to meet bears. Foxes came at night, but before I realized it, I remembered everything colorful that had happened in my life, and exhaled, realizing that they were not bears.

A few words about bears in Kamchatka

The kindest and shyest (or my karma is good).

These are not polar bears, they are not at all interested in destroying everything in their path, and people are not a delicacy for them. Especially in September, when the bear is already well-fed and picking berries.

The only thing you should beware of is the bear cubs, because somewhere next to them there is definitely a big mother who will definitely suspect you as a threat to her babies.

Undoubtedly, every year about a dozen people die from bears, and the remaining five thousand who were lucky enough to see them up close remained alive and happy, I think this is a good statistic. It turns out that it is much more logical to be afraid of car accidents than of bears, they are much more common. And of course, removing trash from nature, because feeding a bear is always not good.

Erupting volcanoes of Kamchatka

The craziest adventure was my trip to the village of Klyuchi, where the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano is now erupting. Before that, I thought that an eruption was some kind of process of ejecting lava, like a lightning-fast phenomenon... Here lava has been flowing along the slopes since April, and gathers huge crowds of tourists from all over the world.

You can’t see her during the day, she’s black and inconspicuous, but at night... This is the most unreal thing I’ve ever seen! Lava splashes out in a hundred-meter fountain and scatters along the slope of a tall mountain.

It seems that these are just coals flying at the speed of a feather, but you realize that these are huge blocks, and they fly very quickly, it’s just a huge height, what a force it is that pushes them out of there!! An incredibly sticky and cosmic spectacle, an indescribable delight.

They even try to climb it, but mostly everyone ends up with ash and the people descend. One got hit on the helmet with a piece of hot stone, one got lost and wandered along the bed of a dry river for four days, going down...

The other day another volcano from that group began to erupt. It simply threw kilometers of ash into the air and a layer of dirt several centimeters fell on the cars, and continued to fall for some time; I won’t say that it was a harmless thing. In general, you won't get bored here.

Other places

I almost forgot, the city of Ust-Kamchatsk! Rows of Khrushchev-era apartment buildings, dilapidated wooden houses, landscapes of the consequences of the apocalypse, garbage dumps with rotting fish and bears, all this on the ocean shore with a cemetery of sunken ships and ultra-modern wind turbines.

However, getting here is already a whole adventure, hitchhiking is good, but the spaces between cars are filled with a specific romance... There is a forest in the area, there are a lot of bears, there are few cars, we collect chaga, drink teas, pick mushrooms, cook buckwheat, sleep on the edge of the forest, eat berries. .

A commemorative badge was made for one of the Kamchatka Fishermen's Meetings. It depicts not Chinook salmon or sockeye salmon, for which Kamchatka is famous, but sturgeon. The question involuntarily arises - why sturgeon, and are there any sturgeon at all in Kamchatka? It is unlikely that a clear answer can be given to the first part of the question. But sturgeon in Kamchatka, although rare, are still found.

The first reliably known case of catching a representative of sturgeon off the coast of Kamchatka was registered in July 1951 in Olyutorsky Bay in the western part of the Bering Sea. An adult Pacific sturgeon measuring 112 cm and 9.61 kg was caught in a fixed net 5 km from the coast west of the mouth of the Apuka River. Fortunately, this copy was preserved and transferred for study to an employee of the Kamchatka branch of TINRO (currently KamchatNIRO) K.I. Panin, who later, together with another famous researcher of fish from the Far Eastern seas A.P. Andriyashev described it in detail.

Since the inland waters of Kamchatka are extremely poor in freshwater fish, back in the 1930s a number of ichthyologists raised the question of the acclimatization of such fish as crucian carp, Amur carp and sterlet on the peninsula. In this regard, in 1958, employees of the Central Production Acclimatization Station brought to Kamchatka and released into the Kirpichnaya channel near the village. Milkovo 1.5 thousand larvae of Ob sterlet - a typical freshwater representative of sturgeon. In 1959 and 1960 releases were repeated, and in both of these years 13.5 thousand sterlet larvae were released into the lake. Kamenskoye near the village. Keys. It was assumed that the richness and diversity of benthos in this reservoir would contribute to better survival of the larvae.

Already in 1961, two young sterlets 12 and 15 cm long were caught by employees of the fish farming and reclamation station during control catches of juvenile salmon near the village. Lazo. After this, for several years no information was received about the invaders.

In August 1967, fishermen of the state industrial enterprise on the river. Kamchatka near the village. Makarka caught a sterlet with a seine, which turned out to be a mature male measuring 45 cm and 0.6 kg. The second capture of an adult sterlet occurred in July 1973. A sexually mature female, 62 cm long and weighing about 2 kg, was caught in a fixed net in Kamchatka Bay. Both of these copies were handed over to I.I., a researcher at the Kamchatka branch of TINRO. Kurenkov, who determined their ages to be 7 and 12 years old, respectively. In terms of all size indicators and physiological state, Kamchatka individuals were no different from the Ob sterlet. Particularly interesting is the fact that such a typically freshwater fish as sterlet enters the Kamchatka Bay. For R. No similar cases are known. According to I.I. Kurenkov, sterlet feeding in areas adjacent to the mouth of the river. Kamchatka sea waters are due to the fact that benthos (especially crustaceans - the main food of sterlet) here is richer than in the riverbed. However, in general, the acclimatization of the Ob sterlet in Kamchatka was unsuccessful. The most likely reason for this, according to experts, is the insufficient number of planting materials for such a vast water basin as the river. Kamchatka.

Over the next two decades, there was no reliable information about the presence of sturgeon in the waters of Kamchatka. But in the second half of the 90s, several cases of their capture were noted, which may be due to significant changes in climatic and oceanological conditions currently occurring in the North Pacific Ocean. In June 1995, in the lower reaches of the river. Kamchatka fisherman S.S. Lisogor caught another representative of the sturgeon with a rafting net. By luck, at that time the leading researcher at KamchatNIRO, Doctor of Biological Sciences V.F. Bugaev, was here, and managed to measure and film the fish on a video camera. According to experts, the caught specimen, 117 cm long (its age, according to V.F. Bugaev, is 17-18 years old) turned out to be a green Pacific sturgeon, which is known from the reservoirs of the west coast of America (Canada, USA), as well as Sakhalin and Hokkaido.

In the summer of 1997, a group of amateur fishermen in one of the channels at the mouth of the river. Palana caught an unusual fish, which they filmed on camera. After watching this video, ichthyologist of our institute B.A. Sheiko came to the conclusion that the strange fish is nothing more than a young specimen of the Pacific representative of the sturgeon - kaluga, judging by the image on the videotape, measuring about 150–170 cm and 30–35 kg (adult fish reach more than 4 m and 800–1000 kg ). The main habitat of Kaluga is the river basin. Amur and some large rivers of Primorye, but it has been recorded sporadically in reservoirs of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk coast of the Magadan region, located relatively close to the place of its capture in Kamchatka. It should be added that this may not be the first time that kaluga has appeared off the western coast of the peninsula. Dr. V.N., who lived in Kamchatka for more than 10 years. Tyushov, in his book “Along the Western Bank of Kamchatka,” published in 1906, talks about being thrown out in September 1896 near the mouth of the river. Kolpakova is an “amazing” fish, according to local residents, “... the size of a fathom with an elbow (about 2.6 m). The skin is dark - hard to the touch, like the skin of a flounder. There were “bumps” along the ridge, gradually decreasing towards the tail. The snout is long; the mouth is completely down, as if on the throat, while it is large and round. The lower lip is short... No bones were noticed, only cartilage. The tail is cut obliquely, longer towards the back. The meat is white. The taste is reminiscent of flounder, only more liquid. The fish was fatty. The height from the ridge to the belly of the fish was approximately 2.5 quarters (about 45 cm) ...” (p. 182). Wasn’t Kaluga described by V.N. Tyushov?

And finally, in May 1999, in the estuary of the river. B. Vorovskaya recorded two more cases of catching one of the sturgeons about 1.5 m long. Unfortunately, there is no reliable information about these fish, but, according to experts, they could also be immature feeding individuals of Kaluga.

Thus, sturgeon can also be found in Kamchatka. Most experts believe that both Kaluga and sturgeon, due to some still unclear reasons, accidentally ended up off the coast of Kamchatka during the migration process. However, there is another opinion: sturgeon are permanent inhabitants of the Kamchatka waters, but due to their extremely low numbers, finds of these fish are so rare.

In conclusion, I would like to appeal to all fishermen (both commercial and amateur) who fish in the inland waters of Kamchatka and off its shores. If any of you are lucky enough to catch any sturgeon, do not rush to eat it or throw it away. Try to at least measure the length and weight of the fish (and if possible, take a photograph or film it on a video camera) and transfer this data either to our institute or to specialists from KamchatNIRO or Kamchatrybvod. Any such information is very valuable for science.

Many people prefer to spend their holidays abroad or in the south of Russia. But there are places in the north and east of the country that amaze with amazing views. For example, few people know how beautiful and interesting the cities of Kamchatka are. In the summer, you can spend your vacation without leaving the bounds of your vast Motherland. Kamchatka is a wonderful place for lovers of beautiful views and clean air.

The cities and towns of Kamchatka are unique and amazing. They give you the opportunity to enjoy stunning scenery without leaving your home.

Features of Kamchatka

This is a unique peninsula, it is also called the land of volcanoes and bears. Only here you can look up close at an active volcano, swim in a hot spring, and walk on frozen lava. Magnificent views of the mountains and the bay, beautiful landscapes - all this attracts tourists.

If you decide to take a boat trip, you can see various inhabitants of the deep sea, bird colonies, and visit Starichkov Island, where many waterfowl birds nest:

• kittiwake;
• red-faced and Bering cormorant;
• slaty gull;
• Pacific guillemot and spectacled guillemot;
• thin- and thick-billed guillemot;
• an ordinary old man;
• molasses;
• axe.

City of Petropavlovsk

Kamchatka has been developed recently, and the first settlement here was a town in Avachinskaya Bay, founded in the 18th century. Now it has become the capital of Kamchatka. The city appeared during the Second Kamchatka Expedition led by Bering and Chirikov. It took place from 1733 to 1743. The city became Petropavlovsk after the name of the first two ships that visited the bay. And from the beginning of the 20th century it received the name Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

Today this city is considered the most important port in the Far East. Countless ships, boats and boats pass through it every day. Many of them offer tourists to go on excursions around the bay. There are magnificent views of the surrounding volcanoes here.

In the city itself you can see interesting sights:

• monument to Bering - the founder of the city;
• memorial complex in honor of the defense of the city in 1854;
• Kamchatka State United Museum;
• Scientific Museum of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology;
• unique salmon museum.

Keys city

Kamchatka is a region where there are no large settlements. Therefore, the village of Klyuchi with a population of about 5 thousand inhabitants is called a city. It is located near the mouth of the Krutenkaya River, at the foot of Klyuchevskaya Sopka. The village of Klyuchi was founded in the place where the large Cossack fort of Nizhnekamchatsk was located. In 1731, it was burned down due to a riot raised by the Kamchadals.

Today, a volcano research station is based in this village, which operates under the leadership of the Institute of Volcanology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The city has regular bus service with Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. There is an airfield here, but it is used exclusively for aircraft transporting cargo. During the Soviet Union, passenger aviation also operated. Not far from the village is the Kura missile test site. It is based in the swamps on the Kamchatka River and has been operating since 1955.

Yelizovo city

It is here that the famous monument with bears and the inscription: “Russia begins here” is located. Elizovo is considered the most important city in Kamchatka in terms of transport links, especially for air vehicles. Despite its importance, residents of Kamchatka consider this city a transfer point on the way from Petropavlovsk to the main beauties of the peninsula, which are located in remote towns and villages. The lack of popularity among tourists is due to the fact that there are practically no attractions in the city. The only thing that distinguishes Elizovo from a typical Kamchatka city is the incredible volcanoes that can be seen on the horizon.

Due to the fact that the city is considered an intermediate point, in it and its surroundings you can find many tourist centers, hotels, hotels and hostels, which are always ready to receive a large number of tourists. Comfort in them is at a high level, so both travelers from Russia and Europeans or Japanese, who often visit this area, will be satisfied.

City of Vilyuchinsk

Few people manage to visit this city, because it is a closed settlement. Therefore, the only way to get to know the city is through photographs. Well, those who visited this and other cities of Kamchatka, which are intended for military personnel, will be pleased to remember these places.

Vilyuchinsk consists of three districts, which are divided among themselves:

• Primorsky is the largest; it is the so-called sleeping area.
• Seldevaya is an area where submarine docks are located.
• Rybachy is the area where the submarines themselves are based.

The city got its name from the volcano. Interestingly, Vilyuchinsky volcano is located very far away. Staying within the city limits, you can only see a small tip of this giant.

Villages of Kamchatka

Going to small settlements, you can see much more of the beauty of this region than in the city. That is why it makes sense to visit the largest villages of the Kamchatka Territory. The first on the list is the village of Vulkanny. It is located in the Elizovsky district. The nearest city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is only 42 km away. Geographically, it is located between the capital of the region and the city of Vilyuchinsk. The village was founded in 1955, and it served as a military camp. At that time it was called Mirny. From 1992 to 1999, the village was closed to outsiders, but now anyone can get there.

The village of Ossora was founded before the war, in 1937. It is the administrative center of the Koryak district. The name of this village comes from the Koryak language and translated means “house of pink salmon”, i.e. the area in which this fish spawns. Ossora is located in the northeastern part of the peninsula on the shores of Karaginsky Bay. It stretches for 3 km along the coast, and to the west of it is Lake Ossorskoye. The village is interesting because deposits of placer gold were found in nearby rivers.

Palana is another village in the Koryansky district. It is located on the western coast of Kamchatka, and the Sea of ​​Okhotsk is only 7 km away. From Petropavlovsk you will have to travel 940 km, and to the nearest populated area - about 200 km (Tigil village).

The Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kamchatka River itself fascinate with their beauty. It’s difficult to say which city or town you should choose for tourism purposes. Usually the routes cover several settlements, which makes it possible to get to know Kamchatka in its entirety.

My father Ivan Pavlovich was a naval doctor. In 1969, after studying at the Military Medical Academy named after. S. M. Kirov, he was offered 2 options for continuing his service: in Kamchatka or in the Primorsky Territory. It was then that I, an 11-year-old boy, bending over a map of the USSR with my parents and sister, found out where the Kamchatka Peninsula was located. This is very far from Leningrad, in fact, Kamchatka Territory - eastern border of our Motherland. That's where we flew.

Flight to Kamchatka

The flight on Il-18 from Leningrad to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky continued 18 hours. The plane landed 3 times to refuel:

• in Omsk;
• Krasnoyarsk;
• Magadan.

From the Magadan region it was already “a stone’s throw” to Kamchatka. She's nearby, you just have to fly over over the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, washing the peninsula from the west. Kamchatka is washed from the east Bering Sea And Pacific Ocean. Later I found out that Kamchadals actually consider themselves islanders. In fact, no one builds their routes through Chukotka, which neighbors the Territory to the north. When going on vacation, everyone says: “Let's fly to the mainland!”

I sat at the porthole and kept looking under the wing. The main impression, besides the fact of the immensity of the country, was that there were no traces of human activity below - complete forests! The clouds were covering something, but when they didn’t interfere with my view, I didn’t see any roads or villages. I clearly remember my surprise.

Kamchatka - where there are hills, volcanoes, winds, snowfalls

Right in Airport "Elizovo" We were greeted by a couple of handsome volcanoes! It was so unusual and cool! We quickly got used to the hills and volcanoes. Looking ahead, I will cry that when I returned back to Leningrad 6 years later, I really suffered for a very long time from plain "boringness". And at first I was in shock from the “hole” I fell into. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was a city of 1st street, stretching at the foot of the hills, along Avacha Bay.

It blows very often here strong winds (up to 50–60 m/s). In winter - constant snowstorms, sweeping up 2 m of snow per night. Sometimes the entrance to the house was visible and external help was required! But how I loved this wind and blizzard! Something like this rarely happens in St. Petersburg, but during any snowstorm I still always go outside for a walk.

Kamchatka - the “capital” of earthquakes

The majority of residents of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, as it is now fashionable to say, "species" apartments. Our windows also overlooked Avacha Bay with the majestic Vilyuchinsky volcano in the middle of the opposite coast.

This volcano is considered extinct. But in total There are 29 active volcanoes in Kamchatka. It is not surprising that almost every day the idyll of our view apartment was violated the shaking of glasses in the sideboard and swinging the chandelier- consequence of earthquakes 1–2 points. On the ground they were not felt at all. The higher the floor of residence, the more terrible the sensation. In the fall of 1971, at 7.30 in the morning, a very powerful earthquake of 7.5 magnitude. I remember it like it was yesterday! By the way, scientists from the Institute of Volcanology then came to our school No. 10 and asked us to describe what we remembered. I remember the fear from the rocking of the house and the “crackling” sound, accompanied by the formation of cracks on the wall. My sister and I were sitting on the bed, and my mother and her one-year-old brother Sasha (he was born in Kamchatka) ran into the doorway. My father was on duty at the hospital that day. Then we looked out the window - about a dozen half-naked people were standing near the house. As the years pass, I believe that earthquakes are the only natural disadvantage of Kamchatka.

Kamchatka is a peninsula in the Far East, washed by two seas and the Pacific Ocean. In the Kamchatka Territory, the tenth largest region of the country by area, only 315 thousand people live, more than half are registered in the capital - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Now the region, home to 300 volcanoes, a valley of geysers and several nature reserves, is becoming a popular tourist destination. Despite the expensive tickets (you can fly from Moscow to Kamchatka for at least 40 thousand rubles), in recent years the tourist flow has tripled. Resident of Kamchatka Mikhail Raspopin (@ sergeevichh) told The Village about the prices and features of life in the region, where going to a cafe costs more than swimming in thermal springs.

low income

25 thousand rubles per month

average income

50 thousand rubles per month

high income

from 100 thousand rubles per month

Housing

20–30 thousand rubles per month

Renting a two-room apartment costs 20–30 thousand rubles per month, depending on the quality and area. Mostly in the city, housing is rented and sold in Khrushchev-era five-story buildings. An old three-room apartment in a house built in the 70s costs 3.5 million rubles. In the new quarters there is more or less high-quality housing, and it costs 85 thousand per square meter: an apartment without finishing will cost about 7.5 million rubles. There are also cottages and townhouses: the price of a townhouse with an area of ​​120 square meters is 10–13 million rubles, a cottage with an area of ​​200 square meters - from 20 million.

Transport

25 rubles per trip

Mostly foreign cars drive around the city; there are almost no domestic cars, except for Kamaz trucks and garbage trucks. But there are a lot of Korean, Japanese and American cars. There are probably nowhere as many jeeps as we have, because there is a lot of snow in winter. City buses are multi-seat Daewoo buses, one trip costs 25 rubles, but I haven’t taken them for many years. A taxi around the city costs an average of 300 rubles. You can rent a car from private owners - it will cost 5 thousand rubles per day, but renting a jeep and going out of town will cost more.

Food

20–30 thousand rubles per month

In a month, the average resident of Kamchatka spends 60% of his earnings on food, since our products are expensive - they are mainly brought from the mainland by plane or by sea. The bread is baked on site and costs 50 rubles per loaf. Recently they opened a pig farm and began to produce fresh meat, but previously it was only frozen. Now the price of frozen meat is 350 rubles, fresh meat is 350–400 rubles. Chicken costs 250–300 rubles.

Our products are the same as everywhere else. But there are many types of red fish: sockeye salmon, coho salmon, chum salmon, chinook salmon, mykiss, pink salmon. In the summer you can buy fresh - 800 rubles per kilogram. A very tasty white fish - blue-skinned halibut - costs 1,000–1,200 rubles per kilogram. There is also Kamchatka crab - 2 thousand rubles per kilogram.

Entertainment

250–5,000 rubles

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky has restaurants, cinemas and cafes. A movie ticket costs 250–500 rubles, depending on the film and location. A meal in a normal restaurant can cost 2–3 thousand for two, but with drinks the bill can increase to 5 thousand rubles.

The restaurants are different, there is the Italian “Da Vinci”, it’s incredibly expensive there - you can spend about 7 thousand. There are Japanese restaurants with sushi, sashimi - our fish is fresh, that’s why Japanese cuisine is widespread. There is also a lot of Chinese food, but it is not the same as in China. There are pubs, for example the Harat`s franchise, where a glass of beer costs 500 rubles - this is twice as expensive as in Vladivostok. There are pizzerias with good pizza from 300–400 rubles.

We have a large selection of excursions and trips. You can fly to a base in the mountains, take snowmobiles and ride them. It costs 100–110 thousand rubles per person per week. You can come in the summer and rent motorcycles and ATVs. Citizens simply go to the thermal springs; they are located 40 minutes from the city. A ticket will cost 250–300 rubles if you travel in your own car.

Purchases

A lot of Chinese consumer goods are sold in the city, but everything is expensive. I try not to buy anything in Kamchatka; I bring things from my trips. I recently got dressed here: simple jeans - 5 thousand rubles, good ones - up to 15 thousand, sweater - 3 thousand. Branded items are incredibly expensive, so I buy them online - it turns out cheaper.