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The achievements of the expedition included the European discovery of Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, the Commander Islands, Bering Island, as well as a detailed cartographic assessment of the northern and north-eastern coast of Russia and the Kuril Islands. It definitively refuted the legend of a land mass in the north Pacific, and did ...
The RAC funded in part or wholly expeditions of the Imperial Russian Navy like the First Russian circumnavigation. The Russo-American Treaty of 1824 and the Russo-British Treaty of 1825 formalised the claims of Russian America, essentially the borders of Alaska.
The decree also provided monopolistic privileges to the state-sponsored Russian-American Company and established the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska. Russian promyshlenniki (trappers and hunters) quickly developed the maritime fur trade, which instigated several conflicts between the Aleuts and Russians in the 1760s. The fur trade proved to ...
1733–1743: Second Kamchatka expedition explores the north coast of Russia and discovers Alaska; 1751: Lars Dalager attempts to find the lost Eastern Settlement by crossing Greenland's ice sheet from the west; 1751–1753: Peder Olsen Walløe explores the east coast of Greenland from Cape Farewell in umiaks; 1760–1763: S. F. Loshkin explores ...
Preceded by Bering's first voyage through the Bering Strait in 1728–1729 and the European discovery of Alaska by Ivan Fyodorov and Mikhail Gvozdev in 1732, [8] the achievements of the expedition included the discovery of the Aleutian Islands and the Commander Islands by Bering and Alexei Chirikov, the mapping of most of the Russian Arctic ...
The expedition aimed to explore the Amur river and adjacent areas, to find convenient ports for the Russian Pacific fleet, transferring commercial cargo to Alaska, and establishing trading relations with Japan and Canton. For awarding Russian settlers and natives, the expedition was granted 325 medals after the emperor's coronation.
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 ...
Aleksei Ilyich Chirikov (Russian: Алексе́й Ильи́ч Чи́риков; 1703 – November 14, 1748) was a Russian navigator and captain who, along with Vitus Bering, was the first Russian to reach the northwest coast of North America.