Paren (russian: Парень) is a village in the

Penzhinsky District, Kamchatka Krai Penzhinsky District (russian: Пе́нжинский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #46 and municipalLaw #337-oz district (raion) of Koryak Okrug of Kamchatka Krai, Russia, one of the administrative divisions of Kamchatka Krai, eleven in t ...

, Russia, which lies along the river Paren. , the population was 65 individuals. The village was settled by

Koryaks Koryaks () are an indigenous people of the Russian Far East, who live immediately north of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Kamchatka Krai and inhabit the coastlands of the Bering Sea. The cultural borders of the Koryaks include Tigilsk in the so ...

in the 19th century. Until the 20th century, it was renown for its blacksmithing and produced a Bowie-style knife known as a Paren knife. The postal code is 688866.

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Rural localities in Kamchatka Krai {{KamchatkaKrai-geo-stub