Kozyrevsk

Kozyrevsk stands beside the Kamchatka River, in the peninsula's great interior valley. Before the arrival of Russian Cossacks, an Itelmen settlement known as Uoyokoal stood near the river called Kolyu. The tributary later became known as Kozyrevka, after the Cossack Pyotr Kozyrevsky, who collected tribute from local people. The settlement and its neighbours occupied a river landscape framed by Kamchatka's volcanic mountains.