Episode 2 of 4
Founding of the Settlement
- When
- 1784
- Where
- Three Saints Bay, Kodiak Island
Shelekhov founded Russia's first permanent settlement in Alaska at Three Saints Bay in 1784.
Having established his authority on Kodiak Island, Shelekhov founded a permanent Russian settlement at Three Saints Bay. Sources describe it as Russia's first permanent settlement in Alaska, though one passage calls it the second after Unalaska (1774). The present-day village of Old Harbor later developed near the site.
Sources
- Russian colonization of North America Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-28
- Kodiak Island Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-25
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