Kamchatka Peninsula
The Kamchatka Peninsula (, ) is a peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about . The Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk make up the peninsula's eastern and western coastlines, respectively.
Immediately offshore along the Pacific ...
, Russia, a tributary of the Bolshaya. It is used for spawning by various species of
Pacific salmon
''Oncorhynchus'', from Ancient Greek ὄγκος (''ónkos''), meaning "bend", and ῥύγχος (''rhúnkhos''), meaning "snout", is a genus of ray-finned fish in the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae, native to coldwater tributarie ...
.
Course
The Plotnikova flows through the Yelizovsky and Ust-Bolsheretsky districts of the Kamchatka Territory.
It originates in
Lake Nachikinsky
Nachikinskoe (), or Nachikinskoye, Nachikinsky, is a rural settlement in the Yelizovsky District of Kamchatka Krai, Russia.
The administrative center is the village of Sokoch.
History
The villages of Nachiki and Malka were part of the Milkovsk ...
() at an altitude of , and flows into the Bolshaya from the river's mouth on west coast of Kamchatka on the
Sea of Okhotsk
The Sea of Okhotsk; Historically also known as , or as ; ) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It is located between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, Japan's island of Hokkaido on the sou ...
.
The river is about long, and has a catchment area of . The part of the Bolshaya upstream from its confluence with the Plotnikova is named ''Bystraya''.
Settlement
Bolsheretsk
Bolsheretsk () or Bolsheretsky jail is an abandoned village on the west coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. Over a 200-year period, Bolsheretsk was a military fort, a prison, a port, and a village.
Bolsheretsk was founded in 1703 as a for ...
was founded in 1703 as a fort on the Plotnikova.
In 1707 rebels destroyed the fort. In 1711 it was rebuilt where the Bystraya and Plotnikova rivers join to form the Bolshaya, 58 kilometres from the river mouth on the
Sea of Okhotsk
The Sea of Okhotsk; Historically also known as , or as ; ) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It is located between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, Japan's island of Hokkaido on the sou ...
.
In the late 1920s the village was abandoned and the inhabitants moved to the new village of
Kavalerskoye
Kavalerskoye () is a village and rural settlement in the Ust-Bolsheretsky District of the Kamchatka Krai federal subject of Russia.
The village is the administrative center of the Kavalerskoye rural settlement .
Location
The rural settlement has ...
, and to village of
Ust-Bolsheretsk
Ust-Bolsheretsk () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (a ''village#Russia, selo'') and the administrative center of Ust-Bolsheretsky District, Kamchatka Krai, Russia. Population:
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at the mouth of the Bolshaya, which from 1926 became the center of
Ust-Bolsheretsky District
Ust-Bolsheretsky District () is an administrative Law #46 and municipalLaw #227 district (rayon) of Kamchatka Krai, Russia, one of the eleven in the krai. It is located in the southern and southwestern parts of the krai. The area of the district ...
.
Fish
The river is used by locals and tourists for fishing from rafts or boats.
Fish species include
rainbow trout
The rainbow trout (''Oncorhynchus mykiss'') is a species of trout native to cold-water tributary, tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in North America and Asia. The steelhead (sometimes called steelhead trout) is an Fish migration#Classification, ...
grayling
Grayling or Greyling may refer to:
Animals Fish
* Grayling, generically, any fish of the genus ''Thymallus'' in the family Salmonidae
** European grayling (''Thymallus thymallus''), the type species of the genus ''Thymallus''
** Arctic grayling ( ...
,
Chinook salmon
The Chinook salmon (''Oncorhynchus tshawytscha'') is the largest and most valuable species of Oncorhynchus, Pacific salmon. Its common name is derived from the Chinookan peoples. Other vernacular names for the species include king salmon, quinn ...
,
coho salmon
The coho salmon (''Oncorhynchus kisutch;'' Karuk: achvuun) is a species of anadromous fish in the salmon family (biology), family and one of the five Pacific salmon species. Coho salmon are also known as silver salmon (or "silvers") and is often ...
,
sockeye salmon
The sockeye salmon (''Oncorhynchus nerka''), also called red salmon, kokanee salmon, blueback salmon, or simply sockeye, is an anadromous species of salmon found in the Northern Pacific Ocean and rivers discharging into it. This species is a ...
,
chum salmon
The chum salmon (''Oncorhynchus keta''), also known as dog salmon or keta salmon, is a species of anadromous salmonid fish from the genus ''Oncorhynchus'' (Pacific salmon) native to the coastal rivers of the North Pacific and the Beringian Arctic ...
and
pink salmon
Pink salmon or humpback salmon (''Oncorhynchus gorbuscha'') is a species of euryhaline ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae. It is the type species of the genus ''Oncorhynchus'' (Pacific salmon), and is the smallest and most abundant of t ...