Aleksei Chirikov made sight of the North American mainland. Bering claimed the Alaskan country for the Russian Empire. Russia later confirmed its rule over...

and Bjarni Herjólfsson sights coast of North America, but doesn't land (see also Norse colonization of the Americas). c. 1000: Norse settle briefly in...

new settlements in Russian America, conducting trade with natives, and carrying out an expanded colonization program. Russia's first joint-stock company...

The Norse exploration of North America began in the late 10th century, when Norsemen explored areas of the North Atlantic colonizing Greenland and creating...

and importance, the later colonization by the European powers involving the continents of North America and South America is more well-known. During...

Creoles (Russian: Креолы Аляски, romanized: Kreoly Alyaski) were the descendants of ethnic Russians in colonial Alaska, known as Russian Creoles (Russian: Креолы...

The American Colonization Society (ACS), initially the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, was an American organization founded...

British colonization of the Americas is the history of establishment of control, settlement, and colonization of the continents of the Americas by England...

peoples of Siberia and the Russian Cossacks, who often committed atrocities against Indigenous Siberians.[better source needed] The Russian conquest of Siberia...

backbone of Russian trading-operations in Russian Alaska. Some of them worked on preliminary request contracts, including for the Russian-American Company...

The languages of North America reflect not only that continent's indigenous peoples, but the European colonization as well. The most widely spoken languages...

Eastwards expansion was followed by the Russian colonization of North America across the Pacific Ocean. Russian promyshlenniki (trappers and hunters) quickly...

The Curonian colonization of the Americas was performed by the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (now Latvia), which was the second-smallest state to colonise...

(Russian: старожилы, romanized: starozhily) are the Russian settlers of the Russian North (the Pomors), Ural, Siberia (the Siberians), the Russian Far...

representing the Russian Empire. List of treaties Oregon boundary dispute Alaska Boundary Dispute Russian colonization of the Americas Maritime Fur Trade...

Island) of the Tlingit nation, and agents of the Russian-American Company assisted by the Imperial Russian Navy. Members of the Kiks.ádi of the indigenous...

Portuguese colonization of the Americas (Portuguese: Colonização portuguesa da América) constituted territories in the Americas belonging to the Kingdom of Portugal...

established a colonial presence in parts of North America, but few Russians ever settled in Alaska. Alexander II of Russia, having faced a catastrophic defeat...

shores of the mainland, where they founded the first permanent Russian settlements in North America. Shelikhov's voyage was done under the auspices of his...

Bering's second voyage of exploration out of Kamchatka, made the first recorded European landfall on the northwest coast of North America at Baker Island off...

(Russian: Форт-Росс, romanized: Fort-Ross, крепость Росс, krepost' Ross, Kashaya: Metini) is a former Russian establishment on the west coast of North...

(Russian: Эдуард Андреевич Стекль) (1804 – 26 January 1892) was a Russian diplomat best known today for having negotiated the American purchase of Alaska...

In the Americas, Indigenous peoples comprise the two continents' pre-Columbian inhabitants prior to European colonization of the Americas in the 15th century...

reached the North American coast, it provided evidence that Asia and North America are not connected. During 1729, it explored the southern shores of Kamchatka...

This is a list of wars involving the Soviet Union (30 December 1922 – 26 December 1991).   Victory   Defeat   Another result* *e.g. result unknown or...

Caucasus Central Asia Russian colonization of North America: Russian America (1733–1867) Sagallo (1889) Russian Port Arthur Russian concession in Tientsin Spanish...

introduced by the Russians. In 1818 there was a change in the management of what was then known as the Russian-American Company, referring to Russians operating...

England, France, and Portugal. See also the European colonization of the Americas. According to the Sagas of Icelanders, Norse sailors (often called Vikings)...

brought to Sitka, the capital of Russian America. In October 1811 Thomas Brown exchanged commands with James Bennett of Derby. In late 1813 Bennett took...

German attempts at the colonization of the Americas consisted of German Venezuela (German: Klein-Venedig, also German: Welser-Kolonie), St. Thomas and...