Klyuchevskoy Nature Park, Russia's most volcanic park is also Kamchatka's youngest park, celebrating its 7th anniversary on December 14, 2006. In December, 2001 the park was included on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites. The mission of the park is to preserve this unique landscape and biodiversity; secondly to create services for public enjoyment and understanding of the park through visitation and environmental education.

     The park occupies 376,000 hectares with 12 volcanoes, about 400 cones from incidental eruptions, 47 glaciers, and hundreds of lava flows.  Due to the long history of eruptions, a wide lava plateau has been formed and is the largest and most powerful volcanic mass on Kamchatka and in all of Russia.  The age of the volcanoes ranges from 7 to 50,000 years.  No less than 2 eruptions occur annually, lasting from a few days to a few months. Klyuchevskoy, Eurasia's highest volcano (4750 m) in only one year spews an average of 55 million tons of basaltic emissions from a depth of 30 kilometers.

     Bezymyanny Volcano in the central of the park is 350 km northeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The park is surrounded by a chain of scenic river valleys and lakes.  Here nest many wild geese, ducks, swans, and Steller Sea Eagles. A massive salmon spawning area is located here as well. From the southwest to the northeast, runs the Kamchatka River, the peninsula's largest. On the banks are built forestry, fishing, and hunting settlements of Lazo, Kozyrevsk, and Klyuchi. Itelmen and Kamchadal, original inhabitants of Kamchatka, live in this valley.  Downriver 120 kilometers from Klyuchi the Kamchatka River flows into the Pacific Ocean at Ust-Kamchatsk village, the district center.  It takes about 10 hours to drive to Klyuchi from Petropavlovsk. The road twice crosses the Kamchatka River and follows just under the gaze of very active Shivelutch Volcano.

     In 1935 Klyuchi village opened the first volcanology station.  In 1958 in Kozyrevsk, a seismic station was established and now in the park is 7 field stations and 5 field points of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Federation. Here they conduct research and work on many international programs including glacial research.

     In 1975 occurred the world renowned Tolbachik Volcano eruption. In total size the eruptive material and activity was the 6th largest volcanic event in history of the planet. This natural laboratory synthesizes new material, and provides a platform for observation of post eruption regenerative processes of flora and fauna.  During the last 30 years, over 20 new minerals have been discovered.

     The presence of fir, larch, and birch forests; alpine meadows, mountain tundra, and high mountains provide home for diverse flora and fauna in the park.  Here are about 400 species of plants, of these 17 are recommended for the Red Book of the Kamchatka Region. Thriving in this abundance are Kamchatka's snow sheep, black marmot, Capercaillie Grouse, wolverine, lynx, Kamchatka's brown bear, and moose.