Khayryuzovo

Khayryuzovo lies in the river valleys of western Kamchatka, inland from the Sea of Okhotsk. The river was known to the Itelmen as Tulagan, and Stepan Krasheninnikov recorded several Itelmen settlements along its valley in the eighteenth century. One was known to the Russians as the Khayryuzovo ostrog. Rivers descending from the central mountains gave the communities of this coast access to fish as well as routes into the interior.