Ust Kamchatsk (RUUKK)

The port handles fish at a processing factory, general cargo and containers, which include lumber, wood, building materials and equipment.

Ust Kamchatsk is located on the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula at the mouth of the Kamchatka River.

Anchorage can be obtained 0.5-0.8nm offshore, either W of the mouth of the river, in a depth of 11.0-12.8m, sand, or E of the mouth of the river, in a depth of 14.6-20.1m, sand. During calm weather, a long swell often sets in without warning and soon becomes heavy. In thick weather a vessel should steer directly for the mouth of Reka Kamchatka, anchor when a depth of 29.0m is reached, and wait until the vessel’s position can be ascertained.

The entrance channel to Reka Kamchatka, leads between two broad sandy shoals extending off the extremities of the two spits that form the mouth of the river. A radio beacon transmits from Ust-Kamchatsk, with a beacon standing on the framework of a former light, 28m in height, on the E side of the entrance to Reka Kamchatka.

BA 1230. Admiralty Pilot NP23.

The MHW interval at the mouth of Reka Kamchatka is about 4 hours. The spring rise is 1.8m, while the neap rise is 0.9m.