Series "Look at Russia!" Kuril Islands

It is a real pearl of the Pacific Ocean and Russia - thirty fairly large and many small pearl islands. They are wide and free arcs deployed between the Japanese island of Hokkaido and Russian Kamchatka. Thus the Sea of Okhotsk is relatively separated from the great Pacific Ocean. The pearl chain of the islands is stretched for 1,200 kilometers.

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About each island you have to write a separate romantic story, which will sound like a fairy tale for the uninitiated. But we will tell briefly about the mysterious Kuriles in general. What is it?

Firstly - it is a pristine paradise for any traveler, for one who does not leave comfortable conditions of civilizations, the Kuriles can become a real hell. After all, here - literally everything breathes and lives in primordiality!

Secondly. These are very hard to reach places. They are uninhabited by humans, but there are a great many animals, birds, insects. In these geographically isolated places there are many active volcanoes. Here there is not one Sannikov Land, there are many such lands here!

Thirdly. The climate here is also primordial, which means it is unusual for a civilized person. Here, nature lives and develops without human intervention, and therefore there are no comfortable beaches here. Information on the Kuril ridge is not enough. The place is here for the heroes of Jules Verne, who want to comprehend and rejoice in comprehension.

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Tourists here can meet the mysterious signs of the long-abandoned human civilization - the strengthening of the Japanese military times of World War II, extending deep into the coastal land. They keep many more secrets. Any traveler can get here in the misty and mysterious world of fire-breathing lands and even whole islands.

Here - all the mystery, and everything mysterious is attractive for a person.

The openwork pearl bridge of the Kuril arc connects Japan and Kamchatka. The Pacific volcanic ring acts, and part of it - the Kuriles, whose islands are visible peaks of a range of volcanoes, projecting from the ocean for only one and two kilometers. But the ridge itself, these super giant buildings go into the depths of the ocean for miles unknown to man.

On the Kuril ridge more than 150 volcanoes, only 39 of them operate. The height of the highest volcano is 2339 meters. The volcano calls Alaid, is on the island of Atlasov. Naturally, with the activity of the still unsettled Earth - volcanoes associated with the whole feature of the islands, where there are a lot of amazing sources, especially - thermal. Science claims that some of these sources are curative.

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The pearl of the Kuril chain is a huge Botanical garden. Variety and neighborhood of the flora is amazing for any imagination, no human creativity can compete with their manifestations. The man named these floras - Manchurian, Japanese-Korean, Okhotsk-Kamchatka. Here together grow - a thousand-year-old yew and polar birch, spruce and larch, immediately - wild grapes, velvet wood, cedar stlanik, a carpet of cranberries blossom and interlaced vines.

Here a person can visit different natural areas per day, he gets from the subtropical thickets to the primeval taiga, from the jungle of giant grasses to the moss tundra. The still-poorly described animal kingdom of the Kuril chain is astonishing and dangerous. Before visiting, read about the owners of the big islands - bears and their neighbors, living mainly in Kunashir, Shumshu, Iturupe, Paramushir. These are the only bears on the planet who have a silver coat color.

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Will you go to the seabed? It is completely in dense vegetation, in their thickets a myriad of different fishes, sea animals, mollusks. The water is crystal clear! Embark on an underwater journey. You will see huge plantations of sea cabbage, maybe you will meet ships that have found peace here, military equipment that will remind you of the existence on the Earth of a person and his tireless and incomprehensible activity.