History of Alyeska: Difference between revisions

 

==== European Claims ====

The first European power to explore the region were the Russians in the 18th and 19th centuries, who sailed from the Russian Far East to Alaska. In 1788, the private Kurile Island Company, originally founded to explore the business opportunities in the Kurile Islands, was given by the Russian Czar a permission to explore the region of what is now modern-day Alaska. A few years later, the czar proclaimed the Ukase of 1790, which detailed the initial claims of Russia on the American continent. The Kurile Island Company was given a charter to the Aleutian Islands and eventually other parts of Alaska.

 

 

==== Early Colonization by Private Russian Trade Companies ====

 

==== The Kurile Island Company ====

 

==== Renewed colonial enthusiasm, and the Russian Pacific Company ====

The Russian Pacific Company was a state-sponsored company established in 1865 and operated in the Russian Far East. In the 1870s, after realizing the geopolitical importance of Alyeska to Russian interests, the Tsar granted a monopolistic charter to the Russian Pacific Company to oversee the colonization and management of the territory. Since the company was state-funded, the Russian Pacific Company was able to pour more development into Alyeska than its private company predecessors.