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Grigory Shelikhov

1747–1795 · 18th century

Grigory Shelikhov was a Russian merchant and fur trader who founded the first permanent Russian settlement in North America, at Three Saints Bay on Kodiak Island, in 1784. His company, merged with rival firms after his death, became the Russian-American Company, chartered by Paul I in 1799 to govern Russian America.

Grigory Shelikhov
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