Grigory shelikhov biography books

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Career

Shelekhov organized commercial trips of the merchant ships to the Kuril Islands and the Aleutian Islands starting from 1775.

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In 1783–1786, he led an expedition to the shores of Russian America, during which they founded the first permanent Russian settlements in North America. Shelekhov"s voyage was done under the auspices of the Shelikhov-Golikov Company, the other owner of which was Ivan Larionovich Golikov.

This company would later form the basis on which the Russian-American Company was founded 1799.

In 1784, Shelekhov arrived in Three Saints Bay on Kodiak Island with two ships, the Three Hierarchs, Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom and the Saint Simon.

Having established his authority on Kodiak Island, Shelekhov founded the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska on the island"s Three Saints Bay (Unalaska had existed