Russian Volcano Eruption 2025. Moscow (ap) — huge ash columns erupted from eurasia’s tallest active volcano wednesday, forcing authorities to close schools in two towns on russia’s sparsely populated. The eruption of shiveluch, on a remote peninsula in eastern russia, sent a giant cloud of debris into the sky and smothered villages in a thick layer of brown volcanic dust.

The shiveluch volcano began sputtering shortly after a powerful earthquake struck off kamchatka’s east coast early on august 18, according to volcanologists from the russian. Moscow (ap) — huge ash columns erupted from eurasia’s tallest active volcano wednesday, forcing authorities to close schools in two towns on russia’s sparsely populated.