Palana

Palana lies near the mouth of a river flowing west across Kamchatka to the Sea of Okhotsk. Its name is connected with the great Pilyalyan rapid upstream; the Koryak name for the river refers to a waterfall. When Vladimir Atlasov's Cossack party reached the region in 1697, a Koryak fortified settlement called Angavit stood here, known to the newcomers as Middle Palana.