Karagin

Karagin lies on the eastern side of Kamchatka, in the country of the Karaga River and Karaginsky Gulf. Koryak settlements along the river were recorded by the explorer Stepan Krasheninnikov in the eighteenth century. The gulf faces the Bering Sea, with Karaginsky Island offshore; rivers descending from the highlands connect the coast with the interior. Fish and reindeer have long been important to the peoples of this northern shore.