Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula

[cisium]

I think everyone who has played Risk has wondered what is going on in Kamchatka.

[kevinmsft]

I am amazed that it actually has 290000 people.

[wsuppdoublesupp]

Hi everyone, I'm from Kamchatka. I have lived here for 28 years. Most likely, the crabs that you eat at your dinner are "Kamchatka crab" or "strigun", which is extracted just from us. In Kamchatka, there are almost all kinds of salmon fish, which are also exported around the world, here we are brothers with Alaska. Tourism is developing here, the region is open to people, you can visit volcanoes, the valley of geysers, swim in thermal water. We don't have many people, only 300 thousand, so we are very friendly and always help each other. And in winter, we have severe blizzards, snow sometimes falls up to the second floor, and the wind can demolish everything in its path. And the summer is long, and you can say it ends in November. Come visit us, let's be friends!

[jessepacheco]

As a Risk player all victories lead through Kamchatka.

[edwardwood]

Imagine if the US had leased that land from Russia from 1920 (a good guess) to 1980, peak cold war.

[Afrologist]

The ethnic population of Kamchatka was never forcefully exterminated, in 1699 the Koryaks had ambushed a Russian expedition which led to a series of native wars, they were NOT helpless victims of ethnic cleansing.

[boozhoobineshii]

I’m Hokkaido Ainu 🇯🇵

It’s very cool to see someone talk about us regardless 🧡

[aleyankogame]

С чего это уничтожили коренное население? У России там было несколько форпостов, портов и все, весь полуостров до сих пор не освоен из-за вечной мерзлоты
Там и до освоения камчатки мало людей проживало из-за тяжелых условий существования
Это вам не истребление индейцев американцами в западе, тут не была вся территория под контролем, за исключением городов племена жили как жили до этого и их никто не трогал

[nikitayarygin]

I've had a honeymoon there and this is a wonderful place, basically Russian Iceland, black sand, volcanos, geysers, etc

[nikita_zub]

I was born and grew in Kamchatka till I was 17. One of the most beautiful place on earth!

[Станислав-оек]

автор не знает истории. Местное население никто не уничтожал, и оно не вымирало, просто Камчатка была малонаселена. Тут как и на Аляске местные либо охотники, рыболовы либо оленеводы. На момент революции в Петропавловске проживало 1, 5 тыс человек, русских на Камчатке мало жило. Большая часть потерь в помент завоевания, коряки очень свободолюбивый народ - сражались за свою свободу, а когда поняли что проиграли многие тогда до прихода русских убили вначале всех своих оленей, собак, жен, детей, и себя.

[abdulinho]

Indigenous people look like indigenous Alaskans, and Greenlanders

[rapha]

More than 160 ethnic minorities still live in Russia. It’s kind of bold to hear coming from an American about the “killing of indigenous people”. If anything Russia has kept those minorities safe and protected.

[JosePineda-cyom]

Everytime i see photos of native Siberians, the similarities to New World natives never stop amazing me. Both physiognomy and material culture, being partially indigenous myself, it's a weird deja-vu moment

[spqr]

Most of people live in just one city and there is a big submarine base there.

[Zestieee]

Not only that. I wonder what is going on in all of North Asia. That part of the world is so mysterious to me and I absolutely adore learning about it.

[samuelgann]

It also has the highest bear concentration on earth for its size or population of people

[KanishQQuotes]

Kamchatka also has active volcano and loads of fresh water lakes and rivers
The lakes are so full of fish that the brown bears in Kamchatka are actually docile and won't care if there are people around
The bears you see in movies are Kamchatka brown bears

[boarbot]

A far better example would’ve been roughly the size of the UK, which has 68 million people.

[aaronb]

Yes I've traversed it on google maps