Akademia Nauk (russian: Академия Наук - ''Academy of Sciences'') is a

volcano A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are ...

located in the southern part of

Kamchatka Peninsula The Kamchatka Peninsula (russian: полуостров Камчатка, Poluostrov Kamchatka, ) is a peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about . The Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk make up the peninsula's eastern and we ...

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. The volcano is filled with a few

caldera A caldera ( ) is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcano eruption. When large volumes of magma are erupted over a short time, structural support for the rock above the magma chamber is ...

s, and the most notable one is known as

Karymsky Lake Karymsky Lake (russian: Карымское озеро) is a volcanic crater lake located in the Akademia Nauk volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula The Kamchatka Peninsula (russian: полуостров Камчатка, Poluostrov Kamchatka, ...

( named after

Karyms Karyms (russian: Карымы) is an ethnic group in Russia which are métises of mixing Russians with Evenks and Buryats resulting from the lack of women among Russian settlers. In the 2002 Russian Census The Russian Census of 2002 (russian: Вс ...

). The volcano is named after the ''Росси́йская Акаде́мия Нау́к'', the Russian (Soviet) Academy of Sciences. It last erupted in January 1996.

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Active volcanoes Volcanoes of the Kamchatka Peninsula Mountains of the Kamchatka Peninsula Calderas of Russia Pleistocene volcanoes Holocene Asia VEI-7 volcanoes {{KamchatkaKrai-geo-stub

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