Sobolevo

Sobolevo lies near the Bolshaya Vorovskaya, a salmon river crossing the western Kamchatka lowland toward the Sea of Okhotsk. An Itelmen community inhabited this river country before the arrival of Russian Cossacks. The explorer Stepan Krasheninnikov related the Russian name of the river to resistance by its inhabitants against tribute collectors, a reminder of the violence that accompanied the extension of Russian rule on the peninsula.