The Kamchatka Peninsula is a 1,250-kilometer long peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of 472,300 km². It lies between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Sea of Okhotsk to the west. Pictured: Viluchinsk , Kamchatka , Russian Nuclear Submarine Base on Kamchatka (Russian Far East). By the late 1980s, it had become Russia`s largest nuclear submarine facility, serving as the home port to 15 Soviet SSBNs. `Kasatka` nuclear submarine is on the picture