Everything about Grigory Shelikhov totally explained
Grigory Ivanovich Shelikhov (Shelekhov) (Григорий Иванович Шелихов (Шелехов) in
Russian;
English spelling varies from Shelekov to Shelikof) (
1747–
July 20 1795 (
July 31 1795 N.S.)) was a
Russian seafarer and
merchant born in
Rylsk.
Shelikhov organized commercial trips of the merchant ships to the
Kuril Islands and the
Aleutian Islands starting from 1775. In
1783–
1786, he led the expedition to the shores of
Russian America, during which they founded first Russian settlements in
North America (which Shelikhov supervised starting from 1790). Shelikhov was one of the founders of the
Russian-American Company, which was officially registered in 1799.
A
gulf in the
Sea of Okhotsk, a
strait between
Alaska and
Kodiak Island, and a
town in
Irkutsk Oblast in
Russia bear Shelikhov's name. There is a statue of Shelikhov in his native Rylsk.
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