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Active Volcanoes of Kamchatka.
Klyuchevskoi Volcano.
First stamp in a set of 3, issued on 30.11.1965.
Face value: 4 Russian kopek.
Deseign: L. Sharov.
Stamp: 4,000,000 copies.
Size: 52 x 24 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 3138.
- Scott No. 3117.
- StampWorld No. 2937.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 3210.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 3033.
- Zagorsky No. 3189.

Klyuchevskoi (in Russian, Ключевская сопка), standing 4,835 m (15,863 ft) tall as of eruption of 2020, is a stratovolcano, the highest mountain on the Kamchatka Peninsula, in the Russian Far East, and the highest active volcano of Eurasia. Its steep, symmetrical cone towers about 60 kilometers (37 mi) from the Bering Sea. From 1996 the volcano is part of the natural Volcanoes of Kamchatka UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its first recorded eruption occurred in 1697, and it has been almost continuously active since then, as have many of its neighboring volcanoes. The most recent eruptions were recorded in the years 2002, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2017 and 2020. It was first climbed in 1788 by Daniel Gauss and two other members of the Billings Expedition. No other ascents were recorded until 1931, when several climbers were killed by flying lava on the descent. The Klyuchevskoi is considered sacred by some indigenous peoples, who see it as the place where the world was created.