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The Russian River (Russian: Рашен-Ривер) is a 13-mile-long (21 km) river on the Kenai Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. It flows northward from Upper Russian Lake in the Kenai Mountains through Lower Russian Lake , draining into the Kenai River near the town of Cooper Landing .
West Saint Peak (left) and East Saint Peak (right) reflected in Three Saints Bay. Location of Three Saints Bay and St. Paul on Kodiak in 1805. Three Saints Bay (Russian: Бухта Трёх Святителей, r Bukhta Tryokh Svyatitelyej) is a 9-mile (14-kilometer)-long inlet on the southeast side of Kodiak Island, Alaska, north of Sitkalidak Strait. [4]
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.
The City of Kodiak (Alutiiq: Sun'aq) is the main city and one of seven communities on Kodiak Island in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska.All commercial transportation between the island's communities and the outside world goes through this city via ferryboat or airline.
Old Harbor (Alutiiq: Nuniaq; [4] Russian: Старая Гавань) is a city in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 218, [ 5 ] down from 237 in 2000.
The strait is named after Grigory Shelikhov (1747–1795), also spelled "Shelikof", the Russian fur trader who founded the first Russian settlement in what is now Alaska at Three Saints Bay on Kodiak Island in 1784. The United States Navy seaplane tender USS Shelikof, in commission from 1944 to 1947 and from 1952 to 1954, was named for Shelikof ...
In 1799 the Russian-American Company was given a charter by Tsar Paul I to govern the territory of Alaska and manage the exploitation of its resources. The company had already established a permanent colony for European settlers on Kodiak Island. Supported at first by the fur trade, the Kodiak colonists later pursued cattle ranching and fox ...
Kodiak Island (Alutiiq: Qikertaq, Russian: Кадьяк) is a large island on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait. The largest island in the Kodiak Archipelago , Kodiak Island is the second largest island in the United States and the 80th largest island in the world , with an ...