"Four-Soldiers" Monument, in honor of those who captured Northern Kurile Islands from Imperial Japan. Intersection of Tushkanova Street and Karl Marx Prospect, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy ("PPK").53.063997N, 158.627310ENote also, on horizon, Koryakskaya, one of Kamchatka's several active volcanoes. Close examination reveals some of those "clouds" aren't "clouds".

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"Four-Soldiers" Monument, in honor of those who captured Northern Kurile Islands from Imperial Japan. Intersection of Tushkanova Street and Karl Marx Prospect, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy ("PPK").53.063997N, 158.627310ENote also, on horizon, Koryakskaya, one of Kamchatka's several active volcanoes. Close examination reveals some of those "clouds" aren't "clouds".

Russian Far East:

Major seaport Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (53.024075N, 158.643566E), Kamchatka Peninsula, near Pacific Ocean

Khabarovsk (48.480223N, 135.071917E)

Magadan (59.568164N, 150.808541E)

July & August 1995