The volcano is located in the north-western part of the Klyuchevskaya group of the volcanoes.

Ushkovsky and Krestovsky volcanoes form a single volcanic massif with a summit caldera which filled with glacier.

There are possibly explosive and explosive-effusive eruptions of the volcano a like as volcanoes if Iceland. It will be restricted to the caldera glacier (the volume of ice is 5 km³) with possible formation of meltwater within the caldera, which may trigger catastrophic floods down the valley of the Kamchatka river along the dry rivers of Bil’chenok, Ryborazvodnaya, Kozyrevskaya, Studenaya and Sukhaya.
The volcano could constitute a potential hazard to international and low-flying aircraft.

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