The project would also feature: “Petersburg will be back on the map,” Hamilton said. The project was rejected twice in ...

In a way, Alaska existed in the Russian imagination long before it had a place on the Russian map. Russian fur hunters ... sometime devastating change. "St. Petersburg. 16 March, 1730.

The hand-drawn map, shows the property on the corner of Old Street, now Grove Avenue, and a lane, now Johnson Alley. The words in the lane stated, "30 feet to Petersburg Mills." The Appomattox ...

Alaska Native Language map. Source: Alaska Geographic Alliance. Click image for a larger view At the time of contact with Russian explorers in the mid-18th century, Alaska was occupied by ...