Video and photos posted on social media show dead octopuses, seals and other dead sea life, as well as a large stretch of discoloured ocean.
Local residents who used the Pacific beaches complained of vomiting, fever, rashes and swollen eyelids.
Initial analysis detected oil products and phenol in the water.
The environmental group Greenpeace has called it “an ecological disaster”.
Kamchatka is one of Russia’s remotest regions, famous for its pristine nature and active volcanoes.
“We began to see that something was wrong with the water because after an ordinary surf you come out feeling good, but this time it felt like we had burned eyes, we couldn’t even see straight,” local surfer Rasul Gadzhiev said.
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