Kodiak

Kodiak, city, Kodiak Island, southern Alaska, U.S. It is situated on Chiniak Bay, on the northeastern coast of Kodiak Island. Founded in 1792 by Aleksandr Andreyevich Baranov, manager in America for the Northeastern Company (later the Russian-American Company), it was first known as Pavlovsk Gavan, or Paul’s Harbor, and was the first capital of Russian Alaska. It replaced Three Saints Bay in commercial importance when it was chosen as the headquarters of the Russian fur-trading...