Avacha ( Russian : Ава́ча ) is a river in the southern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula , Russia . It flows southeast into Avacha Bay , near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky . The river is 122 kilometres (76 mi) long with a watershed of 5,090 square kilometres (1,970 sq mi). Nineteenth-century travelers like George Kennan ascended the Avacha as far as possible and then took horses to the upper course of the river Kamchatka to travel further north.
4-705: The town of Yelizovo , which houses the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport , is on the banks of the Avacha. This Kamchatka Krai location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in the Russian Far East is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Yelizovo Yelizovo ( Russian : Е́лизово ) is a town in Kamchatka Krai , Russia , located on
8-487: A municipal division , Yelizovo Town Under Krai Jurisdiction is incorporated as Yelizovskoye Urban Settlement within Yelizovsky Municipal District. Ethnic composition (2010): The town has a small population of Korean people who were descended from North Korean contract workers from 1946. The town's most notable claim to fame is serving as the host for Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport ,
12-544: The Avacha River 32 kilometers (20 mi) northwest of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky with a population of 39,569 ( 2010 Census ) ; Founded in 1848 as the selo of Stary Ostrog ( Ста́рый Остро́г ), it was renamed Zavoyko ( Заво́йко ) in 1897, after the Russian admiral Vasily Zavoyko who led the defense of Petropavlovsk in 1854. The village was renamed Yelizovo in 1924. Urban-type settlement status
16-400: Was granted to it in 1964, and town status was granted in 1975. Within the framework of administrative divisions , Yelizovo serves as the administrative center of Yelizovsky District , even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is incorporated as Yelizovo Town Under Krai Jurisdiction —an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts . As
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