Viola travel leads an expedition for photographed group to Iturup island, July-August 2013 with the aim of shooting film about historical fame and unique untouched nature of the island.

In 1643, Dutch explorer Maarten Gerritsz Vries, also referred to as de Vries, made an expedition on ships "Castricum", "Breskens", opened and mapped Iturup, Urup and Kunashir. In the mid-17th century, a long era of exploring the Kuril Islands by Russian discoverers began.

Iturup is the largest island of Kuril chain, it has high, steep banks, consists of volcanic massifs and mountain ranges. The island has 20 volcanoes, some of them are active: Berutarube (1223m), Bogdan Khmelnitsky (1585m), Baranski (1134m), Atsonupuri (1205m), Chirip (1589m), Stokap (1634m), Ivan the Terrible (1159m).

Length of island is 203 km and width is within from 5 to 46 km, the area is 3200 square meters, washed by Sea of Okhotsk and the Pacific Ocean.