Return to: The First Europeans - Some written accounts claim that the first Europeans to establish a settlement in Alaska were two Russian explorers -- Semyon Dezhnev and Fedot Alekseev.
"A map of the new northern archipelago discovered by the Russians in the Seas of Kamtschatka & Anadir"
From: An account of the new northern archipelago, lately discovered by the Russians in the seas of Kamtschatka and Anadir. "By Mr. J. von Staehlin ... Tr. from the German original."