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72-471: Unalaska City School District ( UCSD ) is a school district headquartered in Unalaska, Alaska . There are two schools: Circa October 1978 the district had 15 teachers and 140 students. This Alaska school-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Unalaska, Alaska The City of Unalaska ( Aleut : Iluulux̂ ; Russian : Уналашка ) is the main population center in

144-437: A council–manager form of government . The mayor is elected at large, and serves a three-year term; their powers are mostly ceremonial. The city council is the legislative body of the city; it is made up of six members, who are elected at large by a direct vote of the city's electorate. They also serve three-year terms. The city council has for its mission to "enact the laws of the city, set the mill rate for property taxes within

216-606: A Russian naval officer. Late in 1818, Yanovsky was appointed as Chief Manager and successor to Baranov. That year Baranov departed to sail back to Russia, but he died in April 1819 and was buried at sea. Alexander Andreyevich Baranov was born in 1747 in Kargopol , in St. Petersburg Governorate of the Russian Empire . He was the son of Andrey Baranov, a lower-class merchant or mestchanin , in

288-400: A U.S. National Historic Landmark . Dutch Harbor lies within the city limits of Unalaska and is connected to Unalaska by a bridge. Amaknak Island is home to almost 59 percent of the city's population, although it has less than 3 percent of its land area. As a result of the town's strong fishing industry, Unalaska has also become notable for its large population of bald eagles , which number in

360-487: A boon to Russian/Spanish cooperation in North America. He returned to Sitka with the needed food. From there, he sailed to Siberia to begin the thousands of miles of overland travel to St. Petersburg to seek the necessary religious approvals from Russian Orthodox clergy for his marriage. During the harsh winter trek on horseback across Siberia, Rezanov became ill and died. His great dream of a joint Russian-Spanish empire of

432-731: A group was drawn by Alaskan artist Ray Troll . As in all of the Aleutian islands in the south of Akutan Island (32 °F or 0 °C isotherm) the climate of Unalaska is a subpolar oceanic climate ( Cfc ), closely bordering a subarctic climate ( Dfc ) following the trend of warming have predominates the first one. Even so, other climatic maps present even in group D in the Köppen Classification (even though all months average above freezing), with moderate and fairly uniform temperatures and heavy precipitation. Winters are consistently cold, but relatively mild in comparison to other parts of

504-581: A racial breakdown. It reported again as Iliuliuk in 1910, but has reported from 1920 onwards as Unalaska. It was formally incorporated in 1942. In the census of 2010, there were 4,376 people, 927 households, and 533 families residing in the city. There were 1106 housing units. The racial makeup of the city was 39% White , 7% Black or African American , 6% Native American , 33% Asian (28% Filipino, 3% Vietnamese, 1% Japanese, 1% Other Asian), 2% Pacific Islander , 7% from other races , and 6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 15% of

576-487: A rock outcropping at the eastern edge of Sitka Sound. Food soon became scarce for the Russians. Baranov sent a 50-foot sailboat, under the command of his deputy Ivan Kuskov, the 2800 miles to Hawaii to get urgently needed food supplies from King Kamehameha , a long-time trading friend. Kuskov returned with the supplies in time to narrowly avert starvation of the Russians at Sitka. In 1805, Tlingit warriors attacked and massacred

648-530: A settlement in Yakutat Bay in 1795 for 30 serf farming families from Russia. By 1797, Baranov was two years overdue to be replaced, and he had no word of relief. That year, Baranov's Aleut mistress gave birth to their son, Antipatr. He had two more mixed-race Aleut-Russian children with his mistress, also giving them Russian names: Irina and Ekaterina. After learning that his wife in Russia had died, Baranov married

720-636: A single term in the House, from 1981 to 1983. As Unalaska is designated a first-class city and located within the Unorganized Borough , it is required under state law to operate its own schools rather than participate in a Rural Education Attendance Area. The Unalaska City School District reported an enrollment of 418 students for the 2018–2019 school year, split roughly evenly between Eagle's View Elementary School (pre-elementary through 4th grade) and Unalaska Jr/Sr High School (5th through 12th grades). UCSD

792-460: A total area of 212.3 square miles (549.9 km ), of which 111.0 square miles (287.5 km ) is land and 101.3 square miles (262.4 km ) (47.71%) is water. Makushin Volcano (5,691 ft/1,735 m) is located on the island; it is not quite visible from within the town of Unalaska, though the steam rising from its cone is visible on the rare clear day. By climbing one of the smaller hills in

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864-469: A watercolor of Tlingit chief Katlian and his wife. These were the only likenesses ever made during their lifetimes of the two long-time antagonists who had finally made peace. It was painted when he was 71, six months before he died. In the Katlian painting, the chief is about age 45. He is shown with an "Allies of Russia" silver medal hanging on a light chain from his neck, and with Baranov's "Castle" fortress in

936-577: A year, Unalaska is among the rainiest places in the United States. June through August are markedly the driest months of the year, with very rare thunderstorms. Precipitation is especially heavy from October to February, when frequent, often-intense storms from the North Pacific Ocean cross the area, bringing high to very high winds and heavy precipitation in any form, and sometimes, changing forms (rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow). On average, December

1008-508: Is featured in the television show Deadliest Catch , a documentary style show on the Discovery Channel , and Dutch Harbor's facilities and local pub are featured prominently in numerous episodes. Dutch Harbor has also been the largest fisheries port in the United States, in terms of volume of seafood caught, for nearly every year since 1981. Until 2000, it also ranked first in terms of the dollar value of its catch; since 2000, however,

1080-526: Is represented in the Alaska House of Representatives by Bryce Edgmon , an Independent from Dillingham , and in the Alaska Senate by Lyman Hoffman , a Democrat from Bethel . Unalaska was home to Carl Moses , who moved there from King Cove in the mid-1960s and was a business and political leader in the community for decades until shortly before his death in 2014. Moses was the longest-serving member in

1152-562: Is the Elbow Room, a bar which locally, and later abroad, became infamous for its raucousness. It was closed in 2005. Since 2005, the Discovery Channel 's documentary show Deadliest Catch has focused on fishermen who are based in Dutch Harbor. In 2023 Starlink 's first community gateway, a small ground station , was built in Unalaska. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the city has

1224-521: Is the year's wettest month. Snowfall averages over 81 inches (210 cm) per winter season, and can be heavy from December to March. Unalaska's recorded temperature range is from 82 °F (28 °C) in August 1982 to −8 °F (−22 °C) in January 1986. The coldest daytime maximum recorded is 11 °F (−12 °C) and the annual mean coldest day is 24 °F (−4 °C). The warmest night on record

1296-449: Is well above the average daily summer high temperature, standing at 65 °F (18 °C), with the mean for the annual warmest night being 56 °F (13 °C). Unalaska first reported on the 1880 U.S. Census as the Aleut and Creole (Mixed Russian & Aleut) village of Iliuliuk. Of its 406 residents, 230 were Aleut, 162 were Creole (Mixed Russian & Native) and 14 were White. It was

1368-683: The Alaska Native Americans . Under his leadership, schools were created and frontier communities became less isolated. During Baranov's rule, Russian Orthodox missionaries operated widely in Russian America. They translated the Bible into Tlingit and other Native languages, conducted mass in those languages, and inoculated Natives against smallpox . In 1812, Baranov established Fort Ross in California about 50 miles north of San Francisco. It

1440-546: The Aleutian Islands . The city is in the Aleutians West Census Area , a regional component of the Unorganized Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska . Unalaska is located on Unalaska Island and neighboring Amaknak Island in the Aleutian Islands off mainland Alaska . The population was 4,254 at the 2020 census , which is 81% of the entire Aleutians West Census Area. Unalaska is the second largest city in

1512-525: The Spanish flu touched the island: these contributed to a dramatic decrease of the population in Unalaska. Fearing the threat from Imperial Japan during World War II , the neutral United States began fortifying Dutch Harbor in 1940, resulting in the construction of the Dutch Harbor Naval Operating Base and Fort Mears . Construction finished entirely by September 1941, three months before

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1584-455: The 9th largest community in Alaska. In 1890, it returned as Unalaska with 317 residents. This included a majority of 165 Creoles, 84 Natives, 66 Whites and 2 Asians (the total population included adjacent Dutch Harbor, and 5 docked vessels including the steamers Arago and Dora and schooners Nellie Martin , Pearl and Matthew Turner ). In 1900, it reported as Unalaska again, but did not present

1656-566: The Aleut woman, legitimizing their children. In Saint Petersburg , then capital of Russia, Nikolai Rezanov was a high official, Chamberlain to the Tsar . He was also Chairman of the RAC, successor of the Shelikhov Company, through which Russia occupied and ruled Alaska. Due to Rezanov's influence at the royal court, in 1799 Baranov was appointed as Chief Manager – to manage all of the RAC's interests in

1728-706: The Board of the RAC. On 27 November, Baranov and Hagemeister left Alaska together on the Navy ship Kutuzov for Russia. The ship headed south on a route that would take it west around the Cape of Good Hope at the foot of the African continent, to sail northward to St. Petersburg. En route, the ship made an extended stopover in March 1819 in the Dutch settlement of Batavia , on the island of Java , then part of

1800-567: The College of Rural Alaska network and offers both conventional classroom and distance classes. It offers university classes, community workshops, local courses, as well as dual credit for high school students. 11% of Unalaska residents age 25 and older have a bachelor's or advanced college degree. Unalaska is connected to the rest of the state by air via the Unalaska Airport , a 4,500 by 100 ft (1,372 by 30 m) paved runway owned by

1872-498: The Holy Ascension was built in Unalaska. The founding priest, Ivan Veniaminov , later canonized as Saint Innocent of Alaska , composed the first Aleut writing system with local assistance, and translated scripture into Aleut. Between 1836 and 1840, measles , chicken-pox and whooping-cough epidemics drastically reduced the population; thus, at the end of the decade, only 200 to 400 Aleuts lived in Unalaska. On October 18, 1867,

1944-565: The Pacific ended there. In 1807 Baranov was awarded the Order of St. Anna , 2nd class for his successful perseverance and leadership. That year he received news that his Russian wife had died. Baranov married his Native mistress in the Russian Orthodox church and had their three children legitimized. Despite his success in reestablishing a solid presence at present-day Sitka, to which Baranov had moved

2016-607: The RAC colonies, Rezanov avoided a definite answer. The American maritime fur trader John DeWolf was at Sitka when Rezanov arrived. DeWolf, noting the difficulty the RAC had in acquiring decent ships, offered to sell his ship Juno to the RAC. Rezanov readily agreed. In the spring of 1806, Rezanov sailed the Juno from Sitka to San Francisco in Spanish-held California to obtain urgently needed food supplies in exchange for otter furs. He also tried to establish an alliance with

2088-643: The Russian settlement at Yakutat , which Baranov decided to abandon. Late that year, Nikolai Rezanov, the Tsar's Chamberlain and Chairman of the RAC, arrived in Russian America for an inspection trip. He had heard rumors that Baranov was mismanaging affairs. But Rezanov's resulting reports to the Tsar praised Baranov's management and attributed rumors against the governor to malcontents. Baranov asked to be relieved of his position so that he could return to Russia and see his family there again. Believing Baranov to be indispensable to

2160-494: The Russian stratified order of classes. Baranov ran away from home at the young age of fifteen and went to Moscow, where he became a clerk before returning home. After he married and his first child (a daughter) was born, Baranov took his young family to Siberia for its frontier opportunities. In Irkutsk , he became a trader and tax collector with his brother. Eventually, his wife left Baranov and returned to Kargopol with their daughter and two young children they had adopted. There

2232-555: The Spanish against the United Kingdom and United States . During this visit with the Spanish of Northern California, he became enamored of María de la Concepción "Conchita" Argüello , the famously beautiful daughter of the commander of the Spanish garrison at San Francisco. They became engaged to be married, subject to religious approvals, as she was Roman Catholic and he was Russian Orthodox . Rezanov thought this potential match would be

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2304-496: The Spanish made contact with the Russians in Alaska for the first time. An expedition by Esteban José Martínez and Gonzalo López de Haro visited several Russian settlements. Their westernmost visit was to Unalaska. On August 5, 1788, they claimed Unalaska for Spain, calling it Puerto de Dona Marie Luisa Teresa . Alexander Andreyevich Baranov was shipwrecked here in 1790. In 1825, the Russian Orthodox Church of

2376-509: The Tlingit attacked and massacred nearly everyone at the Sitka settlement. Baranov responded by gathering naval forces and an army of about 700 Aleut warriors to attack Katlian's new fort on Sitka at Indian River. He intended to push the Tlingit off Sitka Island temporarily in order to build a new Russian fort at the most strategic site on Sitka Sound. This would be at a place that had been long occupied by

2448-419: The Tlingit defenses. The Russian ground forces unsuccessfully launched a frontal attack on the Tlingit fort at Indian River. Thereafter, they concentrated on naval bombardment from the big guns of the frigate Neva. After several days, the Tlingit abandoned their fort and escaped in a "survival march" to the adjoining Chichagof Island to the north. Baranov immediately began construction of a new fort on top of

2520-633: The Tlingit, who also knew its strategic value. To Baranov's great surprise and satisfaction, as he prepared for battle, a decree arrived from Tsar Alexander I promoting him to the rank of Collegiate Counselor—a rank in the middle of the Russian ranks of nobility. From the lowly class of mestchannin , far below nobility, he had been elevated to a rank equal or superior to the Imperial Russian Navy ship captains, who had treated him with condescension because of his low social rank. In September 1804, Baranov sailed into Sitka Sound with his forces, including

2592-626: The Unalaska Natives occurred; the Aleuts destroyed four Russian ships and killed 175 hunters/traders. In the 1760s, Unalaska was temporarily used as a Russian fur trading post . The post was permanently established in 1774, and was eventually incorporated into the Russian-American Company . It was there that Captain James Cook encountered the navigator Gerasim Izmailov in 1778. In 1788,

2664-625: The United States purchased Alaska , which made Unalaska part of the U.S. territory. In 1880, the Methodist Church opened a school and a clinic for orphans in Unalaska. Between 1899 and 1905, the Gold Rush brought many ships through Dutch Harbor, where the North American Commercial Company had a coaling station . During the first half of the century, the island was touched by numerous epidemics, first in 1900, and then in 1919

2736-658: The Unorganized Borough, behind Bethel . The Aleut (Unangan) people have lived on Unalaska Island for thousands of years. The Unangan, who were the first to inhabit the island of Unalaska, named it "Ounalashka", meaning "near the peninsula". The regional native corporation has adopted this moniker, and is known as the Ounalashka Corporation . The Russian fur trade reached Unalaska when Stepan Glotov and his crew arrived on August 1, 1759. Natives, Russians and their Alaskan Creole descendants comprised most of

2808-464: The area, such as Pyramid Peak or Mount Newhall , it is possible to get a good look at the snow-covered cone. A major find was announced in 2015 after scientists examined a group of giant, tusked, quadruped, marine mammal fossils. The species had been unearthed during excavation for the construction of a school. They are unique, shore dwellers belonging to the extinct order Desmostylia , and possibly related to Proboscidea or Sirenia . A rendition of

2880-416: The area. A pressure of 926 millibars was recorded at Dutch Harbor, which was the lowest non-tropical pressure ever recorded in the United States until December 31, 2020, when another system struck the islands with a pressure of 924.8 millibars. The city has struggled with problems like alcoholism and unemployment in the past and still does, although the situation has improved in recent years. One example

2952-404: The attempt was thwarted. Meanwhile, he learned that men who had been appointed by the RAC to relieve Baranov died en route to Alaska, to his great disappointment. Activity in the region flourished as trading in sea otter and seal furs boomed. Baranov convinced Native hunters to expand their range to include the coasts of California . Baranov also advocated more educational opportunities for

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3024-401: The capital of Russian America from Kodiak, there was local opposition to his rule. He wore a shirt of iron mail beneath his outer shirt to protect himself. The Tlingit made several unsuccessful attempts at assassination, and were amazed by his survival, not knowing of his armor. In 1810, Baranov was at risk of assassination by some of his own disgruntled Russian soldiers, but he was warned and

3096-511: The city, approve the annual budget for the city, and appropriate funds to provide for city services". The incumbent mayor is Vincent M. Tutiakoff Sr. Former mayor Frank Kelty served more terms than any other Unalaska mayor, with a total of six terms over the years. Unalaska also maintains its own municipal police department. Unalaska is located in the Aleutians No. 2 voting precinct, in the 37th election district and Senate district S. The city

3168-540: The community's population until the mid-20th century, when the involvement of the United States in World War II led to a large-scale influx of people and construction of buildings all along the strategically located Aleutians. Almost all of the community's port facilities are on Amaknak Island, better known as Dutch Harbor or just "Dutch". It is the largest fisheries port in the U.S. by volume caught. It includes Dutch Harbor Naval Operating Base and Fort Mears, U.S. Army ,

3240-532: The community's pre-elementary education needs. Previously the Aleutian Region School District , which serves rural areas in the western Aleutian Islands, had its administrative headquarters in Unalaska; the school board's mailing address was in Unalaska. The University of Alaska Fairbanks also has a campus in Unalaska, the University of Alaska, Aleutian Pribilof campus. This college is part of

3312-419: The direction of a British sea captain working for the Russian-American Company (RAC) a sea-going sailing ship was built at Resurrection Bay . This was important for the colonies in fulfilling their transportation needs. Shortly after, a group of Russian Orthodox clergy arrived in Russian America. Their views were often at odds with Baranov's methods of management, especially of the native workers. He founded

3384-423: The distance behind the chief. The two paintings together, by the same artist at the same time, offer a remarkable narrative on war and peace. In October 1818, Hagemeister appointed his second-in-command Navy Lt. Semyon Yanovsky , by then husband of Irina Baranov and thus Baranov's son-in-law, to act as Chief Manager and governor. Yanovsky was replaced in 1820 with Matvey Muravyev who had been appointed directly by

3456-490: The duration of the war; a substantial number of the internees died during the imprisonment. Beginning in the 1950s, Unalaska became a center of the Alaskan king crab fishing industry; by 1978 it was the largest fishing port in the United States. A 1982 crash in king crab harvests decimated the industry, and the mid-1980s saw a transition to bottom fishing . On October 25, 1977, an extremely intense extratropical system struck

3528-659: The fall of 1790 to be the chief manager of the Shelikhov-Golikov Company , and to establish and manage additional trading posts in the Kodiak Island region. En route in 1790 from Okhotsk , Siberia to Kodiak Island of Russian America, Baranov suffered the wreck of his ship in October on Unalaska Island , an Aleutian Island close to the Alaska Peninsula. It was about 600 miles from Kodiak. With critical help from

3600-505: The field, including the Aleutian and Kuril Islands . However, due to the one-year travel time each way between St. Petersburg and Alaska, it was late 1800 before Baranov learned of his promotion and expanded responsibilities. Communication with the government in St. Petersburg was so difficult that Baranov was left almost entirely on his own to decide any pressing issues. For all practical matters, he

3672-470: The financial records of Russian America for any evidence of Baranov's alleged wrongdoing. Hagemeister succeeded Baranov as Chief Manager and governor in January 1818. Khlebnikov was appointed Office Manager, receiving company capital totaling two and a half million rubles . Khlebnikov's audit showed that the books balanced to the ruble, with all income and disbursements accounted for. There was no evidence of malfeasance by Baranov. The audit showed that Baranov

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3744-514: The frigate Neva . Baranov met with Katlian and other Native chiefs and tried to negotiate a peaceful resolution, without success. Just before the Battle of Sitka began, most of the Tlingit gunpowder (acquired from the British and Americans) exploded. It was hit by Russian gunfire while being moved by Tlingit warriors in a war canoe to their main fort from storage on a small island. This loss greatly weakened

3816-568: The history of the Alaska House, serving a total of 22 years, from 1965 to 1973 and from 1993 to 2007. He also served under three different political parties, first as a Republican , later switching to Democrat, and also served the majority of one term as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party . The only other Unalaska resident to serve in the legislature was Eric G. Sutcliffe, at the time owner of Stormy's Restaurant. Sutcliffe served

3888-467: The hundreds and were attracted to the area by human activity. The island of Unalaska was first inhabited by the Aleut people . Unalaska and Amaknak Islands contained 24 settlements with more than 1,000 Aleut inhabitants in 1759, when the first Russian group under Stepan Glotov came and started trading for three years on Umnak and Unalaska. Between 1763 and 1766, a conflict between the Russian fur traders and

3960-489: The land occupied by the Russians was never purchased. He believed it was important in order to ensure that the region remained under Russian instead of British control. In 1802, after Baranov had returned to Kodiak to tend to matters there, the Tlingit tribe on Sitka Island decided to expel the Russians. The latter disregarded the Tlingit warnings to evacuate. Led by war chief Katlian (spelled Kot-le-an in Michener's Alaska ),

4032-453: The local indigenous Aleut people, Baranov and his shipmates survived the winter. They continued their journey via Native sea-going boats in the spring of 1791 and reached Kodiak Island. In 1792, Baranov moved the Russian settlement from Three Saints Bay , which had too constrained an area to succeed, to what they called Pavlovskaya (later renamed as Kodiak). In 1793, he founded the port of Voskresenskii, modern-day Seward . In 1794, under

4104-720: The lucrative fur trade with Alaska Natives . He engaged in brutal tactics to extract wealth from Alaska. He demanded tribute in the forms of furs from native peoples, a practice known as Yasak . To enforce the demands for tribute, he took hostages and demanded furs in exchange for release of hostages. He continued to support his Russian wife and children, who had moved from Siberia back to live near St. Petersburg. In Pavlovskaya, Baranov took an Aleut woman as mistress and had three mixed-race children with her. After learning that his wife had died in 1807 in Russia, he married his mistress, legitimizing their children. In 1817 Irina, his oldest daughter born in Alaska, married Semyon Yanovsky ,

4176-406: The population. There were 927 households, out of which 34% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43% were married couples living together, 8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 43% were non-families. 35% of all households had individuals under 18 and 5% had someone living who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.5 and the average family size

4248-546: The port of New Bedford, Massachusetts , has outranked Dutch Harbor in that category. A pilot project in Unalaska / Dutch Harbor, Alaska, is producing fish oil biodiesel from the local fish processing industry in conjunction with the University of Alaska Fairbanks . It is rarely economical to ship the fish oil elsewhere and Alaskan communities are heavily dependent on diesel power generation. The local factories process 3.5 million gallons of fish oil annually. Unalaska has

4320-512: The state of Alaska, from which daily flights are scheduled. These flights consist of turboprop service to and from Anchorage. A seaplane base is also available. In 2002, the state of Alaska changed the name of the airport to "Tom Madsen Airport", after a bush pilot killed in an accident that year, although the FAA still uses the airport's original name. The Alaska Marine Highway operates once every two weeks from Kodiak between April and October. Out of

4392-399: The state. Summers are cool, with most afternoons only reaching highs of 54 °F (12 °C) to 70 °F (21 °C). Fog is often present even when it is not raining. Summer weather is around 5 °F (2.8 °C) cooler than Southeast Alaska ( Sitka ), but the winter temperatures are nearly the same, although despite the higher latitudes of cities such as Sitka and Ketchikan, both of

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4464-646: The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that caused the U.S. to enter the war. On June 3, 1942, the town was attacked by Japanese air forces in the Battle of Dutch Harbor , part of the Aleutian Islands Campaign . After the attack and the Japanese occupations of Kiska and Attu , almost all of the native residents of Amaknak Island were evacuated. Many were held under poor conditions in camps in Southeast Alaska for

4536-877: The ten major docks in Unalaska, three are operated by the city. A World War II sub dock was refurbished and now offers ship repair services. There are approximately 7 miles (11 km) of paved road, and 38 miles (61 km) of road total in Unalaska. According to traffic counts taken by the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities , the most heavily traveled roads in Unalaska are Airport Beach Road between 5th Street and East Point Road, 5th Street between Broadway Avenue and Airport Beach Road, and Broadway Avenue between 5th Street and Steward Road. These roads recorded an annual average daily traffic volume of approximately 3,000 cars. Unalaska has been twinned with Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky , Russia since 1990. Alexander Andreyevich Baranov In 1799 Baranov

4608-542: The two cities have warmer winters than Unalaska. The mean annual temperature for Unalaska is about 41.6 °F (5.3 °C), being about 33.0 °F (0.6 °C) in January and about 53.7 °F (12.1 °C) in August. The coldest month has been February 1984 with a mean temperature of 22.9 °F (−5.1 °C), while the warmest month was August 2019 at 57.3 °F (14.1 °C); the annual mean temperature has ranged from 38.0 °F (3.3 °C) in 1916 to 44.1 °F (6.7 °C) in 2016. With about 225 rainy days

4680-473: Was 3.2. In the city, the population was spread out, with 15% under the age of 20, 6% from 20 to 24, 40% from 25 to 44, 36% from 45 to 64, and 3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40.7 years. For every 100 females, there were 194.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 218.7 males. The port of Unalaska / Dutch Harbor is the main port and field base for the storied Bering Sea king crab fishery. The Dutch Harbor crabbing fleet

4752-799: Was Baranov's greatest failure, causing considerable expense to the RAC. As a result of this failure, concern about Baranov's age (70), and allegations against him by navy officers returning from Alaska, the RAC Board of Directors decided to commission Russian Navy Capt. Lt. Ludwig von Hagemeister (also known as Leontij in Russian) to go to Alaska, investigate the charges against Baranov, and replace him as Chief Manager and governor. He did not reach Alaska until 1817, and replaced Baranov in early 1818. Hagemeister arrived at Sitka in November 1817 with an accountant, Kirill Khlebnikov (later Baranov's first biographer), to audit

4824-510: Was intended to develop farm products to feed the Alaskan communities. In 1815, Baranov sent Dr. Georg Schäffer , a physician, to Hawaii to establish a way station to accommodate Russian ships carrying furs from Alaska to the booming fur markets of Canton, China . Schaffer got involved with Hawaiian politics to the displeasure of King Kamahameha; he was forced to depart for China and leave the Russian forts on Kauaʻi abandoned. The Hawaiian project

4896-495: Was no divorce in the Russian Orthodox Church. Baranov supported them all from afar. Due to business reverses that had left Baranov nearly bankrupt, he was lured to Russian America by opportunities offered by Grigory Ivanovich Shelikhov , a merchant and developer who had established a settlement on Kodiak Island to enhance the growing Russian maritime fur trade there. Baranov accepted a five-year contract starting in

4968-420: Was personally almost insolvent because he had made it a practice to help others in financial distress with his own funds throughout his rule. In late July 1818, a Russian Imperial Navy ship sailing around the world arrived in Sitka for a brief visit of less than a month. On board was Mikhail Tikhanov , a Navy artist assigned to document the voyage. In August 1818, Tikhanov painted an oil portrait of Baranov and

5040-412: Was promoted, appointed by the recently chartered Russian-American Company as Chief Manager, effectively the first governor of Russian America. He served until 1818. This was the early colonial period of expansion of settlements. He founded Pavlovskaya (Kodiak) and later New Archangel (Sitka), Russian colonies that were bases of the company in present-day Alaska. In addition, he oversaw the expansion of

5112-475: Was the government of Alaska. In 1799, Baranov had decided that perceived British encroachment on Russia's holdings in southeastern Alaska required him to build a defensive fort in that area. While the Russians maintained that he bought a portion of land from the Tlingit and built a fort and settlement on Sitka Island overlooking Sitka Sound , the Tlingit believed that land could not be owned, therefore meaning that

5184-677: Was voted one of the best 100 school districts in the United States by Offspring Magazine , a Forbes publication. It has also consistently been one of the highest scoring schools in Alaska in both the Standards-based exams and Alaska Exit Exam. In 2006, the Alaska Association of School Boards awarded the school district with the Outstanding School Board Award and Superintendent of the Year award. Unalaska Headstart also serves

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