Expedition of volcanologists (1973-1979)

Views of Kamchatka volcanoes (above), clouds above volcanoes.

View of part of the sea coast with smoking geysers (above).

Mountain landscape, the beginning of a volcanic eruption.

Seals throw themselves into the water from the shore.

Falling boulders during a volcanic eruption.

Smoke from a volcanic eruption, view of a volcano (panorama).

Smoke above a volcano (above).

Volcanic eruption, lava ejections from a crater.

Spreading lava.

Volcanologists observe a flowing river of lava.

Members of the expedition observe the consequences of a volcanic eruption.

Taking soil samples.

One of the volcanologists approaches the crater of a volcano.

The volcanologist turns his back to the crater.

One of the expedition members begins his descent into the smoking crater, his comrades insure him.

Collecting samples of cooled lava.

Collecting air samples.

View of the crater of an erupting volcano, sparks flying out of the crater.

Panorama of flowing lava (top).

A structure half buried under solidified lava.

Volcanologists collect samples and conduct express research next to a river of hot lava.

One of the expedition members walks in clouds of steam along the slope of a volcano.

A member of the expedition descends to the water's edge on the shore of a lake, steam rises from cracks in the shore.

Measuring the water temperature in one of the springs.

Equipment for taking samples.

A member of the expedition hands a test tube with a sample to a colleague, who examines the contents of the test tube.

A member of the expedition conducts research in the field, looking through the eyepiece of a microscope.

Volcanologists make their way through solidified lava.

Panorama of a mountain slope covered in solidified lava, volcanologists climb the slope.

Volcanologists walk along the shore of a lake in a valley of hot springs.