Spackman said he has been told by Russia’s Deputy Consul General in Seattle, Khalit Aisin, that he plans to visit Sitka for Alaska Day. Spackman said Aisin is expected to arrive Friday morning.

Alaska officially became a state 92 years after the transaction, in January 1959, making it the 49th state. Hawaii became the ...

Assembly members in Sitka on Tuesday night approved moving the statue of Alexander Baranov, an early 19th century governor of Russian Alaska, to inside the Sitka Historical Society Museum.

Nearly 6,000 seek to keep statue of Russian America governor in Alaska Some 2,884 people have signed another petition in favor of removing the monument from Sitka NEW YORK, July 14. /TASS/.