Avacha Bay

The port city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and the closed town of Vilyuchinsk lie on the coast of the bay.

It was surveyed and mapped by Captain Mikhail Tebenkov of the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1830s.

[2] Avacha Bay was the scene of a massive die-off of benthic marine organisms in September–October 2020.

[citation needed] It is an internal part of Avacha Gulf.

The main rivers flowing into the bay are the Avacha and Paratunka.

Petropavlovsk and Koryaksky Volcano, as seen from Avacha Bay
Adam Johann von Krusenstern in Avacha Bay by Friedrich Georg Weitsch , c. 1806, National Museum in Warsaw