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In 1981, Meach worked several jobs and was enrolled at the University of Alaska. [1] On May 3, 1982, armed with a .38-caliber revolver that he had bought from a man on the street, he shot four teenagers to death while robbing their campsite in Russian Jack Springs Park; two 19-year-old boys, one 16-year-old girl and one 17-year-old girl. The ...
The Awa'uq Massacre [4] [5] or Refuge Rock Massacre, [5] or, more recently, as the Wounded Knee of Alaska, [2] was an attack and massacre of Koniag Alutiiq (Sugpiaq) people in August 1784 at Refuge Rock near Kodiak Island by Russian fur trader Grigory Shelekhov and 130 armed Russian men and cannoneers of his Shelikhov-Golikov Company.
Taras Kulakov (born 1987), YouTube personality known for life hack and gadget reviewing videos, of Ukrainian descent; Loren Leman (born 1950), former lieutenant governor of Alaska, one of his ancestors was a Russian settler who married an indigenous Alutiiq woman in Kodiak while Russia claimed and colonized Alaska centuries ago
Russell Bonner Bentley III (Russian: Рассел Бентли, romanized: Rassel Bentli; 20 June 1960 – 8 April 2024), also known as Texas (Russian: Техас, pronounced in Russian as "Tekhas") and the Donbass Cowboy, was an American man who served in the Vostok Battalion and XAH Spetsnaz Battalion in 2014, 2015 and 2017 on the side of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Timothy Treadwell (born Timothy William Dexter; April 29, 1957 – October 5, 2003) was an American bear enthusiast, environmentalist, documentary filmmaker, and founder of the bear-protection organization Grizzly People. He lived among coastal brown bears (Ursus arctos gyas) in Katmai National Park, Alaska, for 13 summers. [1]
Russian businessman 2012-11-10 London United Kingdom: 1 (Target) 0 Poisoned with a biological poison shortly before court testimony on Putin's financial network. [2] Alexander Bednov: Russian military commander 2015-01-05 Luhansk Ukraine: 1 (Target) Unknown GRU: Killed during an arrest by "Luhansk People's Republic" police. [2]
This is a list of United States Armed Forces general officers and flag officers who were killed in World War II. The dates of death listed are from the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 to the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945, when the United States was officially involved in World War II. Included are generals and admirals who ...
Viktor Belenko's military ID. Viktor Ivanovich Belenko (Russian: Виктор Иванович Беленко; February 15, 1947 – September 24, 2023) was a Russian-born American aerospace engineer and Soviet pilot who defected in 1976 to the West while flying his MiG-25 "Foxbat" jet interceptor and landed in Hakodate, Japan.