Milkovo, Kamchatka Krai

Milkovo (Russian: Мильково) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Milkovsky District, Kamchatka Krai, Russia.

The museum contains artifacts from the indigenous peoples of Kamchatka such as the Itelmens, Koryaks, Evens, Aleuts, a memorial cabinet to the Italmen and Soviet poet, writer, and folklorist Georgy Germanovich Porotovas, and objects from the nature of the area such as ancient animal fossils, a bison skull, tusks and mammoth teeth, stuffed birds, and minerals.

[4][5] Milkovo also contains the Ostrozhnaya Wall park-museum, which was established in the 1980s and hosts annual fairs and various holiday events, including a rock festival that has been held every year since 2012.

The park features a monument honoring Kamchatka's pioneers and indigenous people, along with statues of the Itelmen god Khantai, depicted as a half-man, half-fish figure.

In the mid-18th century, Semyon Glazachev, a merchant from Irkutsk, discovered iron ore in the area and started smelting it, leading to the establishment of a short-lived ironworks in Milkovo.

These games originally began in Milkovo, and after a two-decade hiatus following the Soviet Union's dissolution, local authorities and past participants revived the tradition in 2013.

Milkovo's stadium was renovated for the event, which saw 200 athletes from across Kamchatka competing in various sports, including football, volleyball, street basketball, table tennis, track and field, strength competitions, sambo wrestling, and weightlifting.