Grigory Shelikhov

Grigory Ivanovich Shelikhov (Shelekhov) (''Шелихов (Шелехов), Григорий Иванович'' in Russian ; English spelling varies from Shelekov to Shelikof) ( 1747 — 7.20(31). 1795 ) was a Russian seafarer and Merchant .

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 .

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A Gulf in the Sea Of Okhotsk , a Strait between Alaska and the Kodiak Island , and a town in Irkutsk Oblast in Russia bear Shelikhov's name.

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