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The Russian River (Russian: Рашен-Ривер) is a 13-mile-long (21 km) river on the Kenai Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. It flows northward from Upper Russian Lake in the Kenai Mountains through Lower Russian Lake , draining into the Kenai River near the town of Cooper Landing .
The river's name comes from the Yup'ik, kusquqviim, recorded by a Russian sailor in 1826. [1] The Tanana (Athabaskan) name for the river was Chin-ana. [2] Upper Kuskokwim (Kolchan) is often used to mean the people of the upper parts of the river, while Yup'ik people live along the lower river.
This is a List of rivers in Alaska, ... Caribou River (Alaska) – 50 miles (80 km) Gulf of Alaska. Chignik River – 20 miles (32 km)
Russian River may refer to any of the following: Russian River (Alaska), a river in Alaska; Russian River (California), a river in California; See also.
Russian colonial possessions in the Americas were collectively known as Russian America (Russian: Русская Америка, romanized: Russkaya Amerika; 1799 to 1867). It consisted mostly of present-day Alaska in the United States , but also included the outpost of Fort Ross in California .
This is a route-map template for the Russian River, a waterway in the United States.. For a key to symbols, see {{waterways legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The U.S. military detected and tracked four Russian military planes off the coast of Alaska Monday amid a spike in such activity from Moscow off the U.S. coast. The four Russian aircraft were ...
The Kolmakov Redoubt Site is a historic archaeological site on the Kuskokwim River in western Alaska. The site is located downriver from the hamlet of Sleetmute, about 21 miles east of Aniak. The site was the location of a major trading post, which was one of the only ones established deep in the Alaskan interior by the Russian-American Company.