About Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is a port and administrative centre of Kamchatka region, far eastern Russia. It lies along the landlocked Avachinskaya Gulf, on the Pacific coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The city was founded in 1740 during V.J. Bering's Second Kamchatka Expedition. In 1854, during the Crimean War, an Anglo-French attack on Petropavlovsk was repulsed. The modern city is a fishing center.
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