Cars in a Russian village were covered in a blanket of ash after the Shiveluch volcano erupted early on Tuesday, 11 April.<br /><br />Footage from the Russian Academy of Sciences shows an entire village covered in grey volcanic dust.<br /><br />A vast cloud of ash shot 20km into the sky after the volcano on the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula erupted just after midnight.<br /><br />An area of 108,000 square kilometres (41,700 square miles) was covered in the dust, the Kamchatka Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Geophysical Survey said.
