Vilyuchinsk is a
closed town in
Kamchatka Krai,
Russia, located on the
Kamchatka Peninsula about across
Avacha Bay from
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Population:
History
It was founded as
Sovetsky on October 16, 1968 through the amalgamation of three earlier settlements which supplied the
Soviet Navy and served as a base for submarine construction: Rybachy, Primorsky, and Seldevaya. In 1970, as with other closed towns in the
Soviet Union, it was given a code name based on the nearest major city, becoming known officially as
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-50 until 1994. In 1994, the town was renamed after the nearby
volcano,
Vilyuchik.