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Detailed explanation-1: -Two volcanoes in the Kamchatka Peninsula erupted recently. They are among the six volcanoes in the northeastern part of Russia that are currently showing signs of increased activity.

Detailed explanation-2: -Kamchatka Peninsula, also spelled Kamčatka, Russian Poluostrov Kamchatka, peninsula in far eastern Russia, lying between the Sea of Okhotsk on the west and the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea on the east.

Detailed explanation-3: -From geographic north to south, the erupting volcanoes are Shiveluch, Bezymianny, Kizimen, Karymsky, and Zhupanovsky.

Detailed explanation-4: -Kamchatka is a mountainous peninsula in eastern Russia at the northeastern boundary of Asia, lying between latitudes 51°N and 60°N and longitude 160°E, in the north-west Pacific (Fig. 1).