The Kinenin maar lies at the eastern foot of the Sredinny Range, about 80 km NW of Sheveluch seen in the background. The eruption took place about 1,100 years ago, and the maar is now partially filled by a 1-km-wide lake whose surface is at 400 m elevation.

Copyrighted photo by Gennady Novikov, 2003 (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow).

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Kinenin

Sheveluch