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Discovering Kamchatka - Russia

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November 1998
Throughout the cold-war the Kamchatka peninsula was home to the Soviet empire's nuclear powered fleet.
Even Soviet citizens needed special permits to visit here. But today the military enclave is largely redundant. And for the people that used to work there, there's not much left to do. The grey concrete town is now a desolate Place full of deserted flats. Yet the Soviet secrecy surrounding Kamchatka could now be its salvation. With its 29 active volcanoes the land steams and belches super-heated water and mud. It's a landscape that's a veritable eco-tourism paradise. And it's this vision that cheers Vice Governor Vladmir Balakayev. He wants to see wealthy tourists sampling 'The Valley of the Geysers' and the Laval Lake. With them could be a new lease of life for this desolate peninsula. Like everywhere in Russia, Kamchatka's future is precarious. But here at least economics is guiding it towards a post-Soviet rarity -- preservation of wilderness.

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