Palana

an urban-type settlement and administrative center of the Koriak National Okrug, Kamchatka Oblast, RSFSR. Situated on the western coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, on the right bank of the Palana River, 8 km from the river’s influx into the Sea of Okhotsk. Population, 3,300 (1974). Palana has the fuel and food-processing industries and a museum of local lore.