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The Kodiak History Museum, [1] [4] until 2019 known as the Baranov Museum, [1] is a history museum at 101 East Marine Way in Kodiak, Alaska.It is located in a National Historic Landmark building known as the Russian-American Magazin [] and the Erskine House, which also houses the office of the Kodiak Historical Society.
In 1867, site of Russian flag lowering and American flag raising marking the transfer of Alaska to the U.S.; in 1959, after Alaska admitted as 49th state, site of first official raising of 49-star U.S. flag; also known as Castle Hill and Baranof Castle. 5: Anangula Site: Anangula Site
This list of museums in Alaska is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
When Alaska was admitted as the 49th U.S. state in 1959, Castle Hill was the location where the first 49-star U.S. flag in Alaska was raised, though the ceremony was unofficial and secret. [7] The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1962 [2] and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. [5]
Alaskan Russian, known locally as Old Russian, is a dialect of Russian, influenced by Eskimo–Aleut languages, spoken in what is now the U.S. state Alaska since the Russian colonial period. Today it is prevalent on Kodiak Island and in Ninilchik ( Kenai Peninsula ), Alaska; it has been isolated from other varieties of Russian for over a century.
The U.S. military detected and tracked four Russian military planes off the coast of Alaska Monday amid a spike in such activity from Moscow off the U.S. coast. The four Russian aircraft were ...
"California-Alaska trade, 1851–1867: The American Russian commercial company and the Russian America company and the sale/purchase of Alaska." Journal of Russian American Studies 2.1 (2018): 1–14. online Archived April 7, 2023, at the Wayback Machine; Vinkovetsky, Ilya (2011). Russian America: An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire ...
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