Caldera of the Uzon volcano, and a small map of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Face value: 2 Russian rubles.
Design: A. Umurkulova.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 300,000 copies.
Size: 40 x 28 mm.
Catalogs
- Michel No. 991.
- Scott No. 6704b.
- StampWorld No. 985.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 7098.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 6642.
- Zagorsky No. F 759,
Uzon (Russian: Узон) is a destroyed extinct volcano, which had an altitude of around 3,000 m (1,865 ft), located on the territory of the Kronotsky Nature Reserve, east of the Kamchatka Peninsula. This is a unique area of manifestation of modern volcanism, the formation of minerals and ores, the place where the youngest oil on the planet emerges. The caldera of the Uzon volcano, formed about 40,000 years ago as a result of violent eruptions, is one of the largest in Kamchatka: it is a great depression up to 12 km (7.46 miles) in diameter in a latitudinal direction and up to 9 km (5.6 miles) heading south. It is occupied by Lake Dalny In 1854, the Estonian-German geologist Karl von Ditmar discovered mineral springs there.
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Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution (https://worldofstamp2.wordpress.com/).
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