Volcanoes in Russia
Volcanoes of Russia
Russia holds 71 catalogued volcanoes. Below, the ones whose heat was measured from space in the last twenty-four hours, then the full list.
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Every catalogued volcano
- Akademia NaukStratovolcano(es), last eruption 1996 CE
- AlaidStratovolcano, last eruption 2022 CE
- Alney-ChashakondzhaStratovolcano, last eruption 1600 CE
- AsachaComplex, last eruption Unknown
- AvachinskyStratovolcano, last eruption 2001 CE
- BakeningStratovolcano, last eruption 550 BCE
- Barkhatnaya SopkaVolcanic field, last eruption 3550 BCE
- BezymiannyStratovolcano, last eruption 2025 CE
- BliznetsyLava cone, last eruption 1060 BCE
- Bolshoi SemiachikStratovolcano(es), last eruption 4450 BCE
- Bolshoi-KekuknayskyShield(s), last eruption 5310 BCE
- Cherpuk GroupPyroclastic cone(s), last eruption 4550 BCE
- ChikurachkiStratovolcano(es), last eruption 2023 CE
- Diky GrebenLava dome(s), last eruption 350 CE
- DzenzurskyCompound, last eruption Unknown
- EbekoStratovolcano, last eruption 2024 CE
- ElovskyShield(s), last eruption 7550 BCE
- Fuss PeakStratovolcano, last eruption 1854 CE
- GamchenComplex, last eruption 188 BCE
- GorelyCaldera, last eruption 2010 CE
- Gorny InstituteStratovolcano, last eruption 1250 CE
- IchinskyStratovolcano, last eruption 1740 CE
- IliinskyStratovolcano, last eruption 1901 CE
- KambalnyStratovolcano, last eruption 2017 CE
- KamenStratovolcano, last eruption Unknown
- Karpinsky GroupComplex, last eruption 1952 CE
- KarymskyStratovolcano, last eruption 2025 CE
- KhangarStratovolcano, last eruption 1500 CE
- KhodutkaStratovolcano(es), last eruption 300 BCE
- KikhpinychStratovolcano(es), last eruption 1550 CE
- KineninMaar, last eruption 850 CE
- KizimenStratovolcano, last eruption 2013 CE
- KlyuchevskoyStratovolcano, last eruption 2025 CE
- KomarovStratovolcano, last eruption 950 CE
- KoryakskyStratovolcano, last eruption 2009 CE
- KoshelevStratovolcano, last eruption 1690 CE
- KostakanPyroclastic cone(s), last eruption 1350 CE
- KrasheninnikovCaldera, last eruption 2025 CE
- KronotskyStratovolcano, last eruption 3350 BCE
- KsudachStratovolcano, last eruption 1907 CE
- Kurile LakeCaldera, last eruption 6440 BCE
- Maly SemyachikCaldera, last eruption 1952 CE
- MutnovskyComplex, last eruption 2000 CE
- NylgimelkinShield(s), last eruption 3550 BCE
- Olkoviy Volcanic GroupVolcanic field, last eruption Unknown
- OpalaCaldera, last eruption 1776 CE
- OstryStratovolcano, last eruption 2050 BCE
- PiipStratovolcano, last eruption 5050 BCE
- Sedanka Lava FieldVolcanic field, last eruption 7050 BCE
- SevernyShield, last eruption 1550 BCE
- SheveluchStratovolcano, last eruption 2025 CE
- ShisheikaLava dome, last eruption 2240 BCE
- SpokoinyStratovolcano, last eruption 3450 BCE
- TaunshitsStratovolcano, last eruption 550 BCE
- TerpukShield, last eruption 800 BCE
- TitilaShield(s), last eruption 550 BCE
- TolbachikShield, last eruption 2013 CE
- Tolmachev DolPyroclastic cone(s), last eruption 300 CE
- UdinaStratovolcano(es), last eruption Unknown
- UshkovskyCompound, last eruption 1890 CE
- UzonCaldera(s), last eruption 200 CE
- VeerPyroclastic cone(s), last eruption 390 CE
- Vernadskii RidgePyroclastic cone(s), last eruption Unknown
- VilyuchinskyStratovolcano, last eruption 8050 BCE
- VisokiyStratovolcano, last eruption Unknown
- VysokyStratovolcano, last eruption 550 BCE
- YavinskyStratovolcano, last eruption 4050 BCE
- ZavaritskyPyroclastic cone(s), last eruption 800 BCE
- ZheltovskyStratovolcano, last eruption 1923 CE
- ZhupanovskyCompound, last eruption 2016 CE
- ZiminaStratovolcano(es), last eruption Unknown
Questions readers ask
- Which volcanoes are erupting right now?
- The list above is what satellites measured in the last twenty-four hours. It is not the list of erupting volcanoes: an eruption under cloud, or one too cool to detect, will be missing, and a lava field cooling after an eruption can still appear.
- How many active volcanoes are there in the world?
- The Smithsonian Institution catalogues about 1,300 volcanoes with an eruption during the Holocene, roughly the last 10,000 years. Far fewer are erupting at any given moment — typically a few dozen.
- How can a satellite tell a volcano is active?
- It measures infrared radiation. Lava, hot gas and fresh deposits emit far more than the surrounding ground, so a thermal sensor detects them from orbit — day or night, but not through thick cloud.
- Does an absent volcano mean it has stopped?
- No. It means no satellite measured heat there during the window. Cloud, the timing of the overpass, or an eruption confined below the surface all produce the same silence.
What this measurement is, and is not
- Radiative power is the infrared a sensor received at the instant it passed overhead. It is not a measure of emissions, of pollution, or of any contribution to climate change — a solar farm can top the list on reflected sunlight alone.
- A source absent from this page is not a source at rest: a polar satellite passes twice a day, clouds hide the ground, and a site that was hot between two overpasses was never seen.
- The site catalog is a snapshot, rebuilt by hand. A plant that opened after the last build is missing from it, and a plant that closed is still in it.
Where the data comes from
The detections are NASA FIRMS (LANCE / EOSDIS). The sites are not NASA's data and are not ours: they come from the Smithsonian Institution for volcanoes, the World Bank with NOAA and the Colorado School of Mines for flares, the World Resources Institute for power plants, the Spatial Finance Initiative for cement, steel and petrochemicals, Global Energy Monitor for steel, and the U.S. Geological Survey for mineral sites.