Bezymianny

Bezymianny
Kamchatka volcanoes: Klyuchevskaya Sopka (up), Bezymianny (down), both in activity, and the Kamen (middle).
Highest point
Elevation	2,882 m (9,455 ft)
Coordinates	55°58′42″N 160°35′12″E / 55.97833°N 160.58667°E / 55.97833; 160.58667
Geography
Location	Kamchatka, Russia
Geology
Mountain type	Stratovolcano, Somma volcano
Last eruption	2010–2013

Bezymianny (Russian: Безымянный, meaning unnamed) is an active stratovolcano in Kamchatka, Russia. Bezymianny volcano had been considered extinct until 1955. Activety starting in 1955, cumulated in a dramatic eruption in 1956. This eruption, similar to that of Mount St. Helens in 1980, produced a large horseshoe-shaped crater that was formed by collapse of the summit and an associated lateral blast. Subsequent episodic but ongoing lava dome growth, accompanied by intermittent explosive activity and pyroclastic flows, has largely filled the 1956 crater. The most recent eruption of lava flows occurred in February 2013. The modern Bezymianny volcano, much smaller than its massive neighbors Kamen and Kliuchevskoi, was formed about 4700 years ago over a late- lava-dome complex and an ancestral volcano that was built between about 11,000–7000 years ago. There have been three periods of intensified activity in the past 3000 years.