I am of Russian Aleut Descent, this part of history is so largely forgotten.

@Abnarly

6 жыл бұрын

Eziekle Crafts Those people want to get lost

@discobombulate

6 жыл бұрын

give me your steam

@dominiquecollins1704

6 жыл бұрын

You wanna know the real flat out reason why United States them atomic bombs in Japan type on youtube The Petrodollar | War Machine.

@lissaleggs4136

5 жыл бұрын

You need to play musical instrument and mix in the beat of the Russian Aleuts and the bass

@TheRaptor22f

5 жыл бұрын

ALASKA HAS AN ABUNDANCE OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

Russian fur traders were well established in California in the early 1800s. The first Orthodox church on the continental US was the Russian settlement of Fort Ross in California, also the first recorded windmills in California were built there. The nearby Russian River is named after the Russians that lived there and explored it.

@Blaqjaqshellaq

5 жыл бұрын

TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST mentions Russians in California.

@caidengreen8366

5 жыл бұрын

Ok do it really look like I care

@boydwhite3708

5 жыл бұрын

That is actually an important thing to realize historically. That was the meeting point of the extent of Spanish expansion to the north and the Russians heading south. John Sutter bought Ft. Ross which gave him gravitas along with this Spanish land grant...and thus Sutter became the cornerstone of Americans migrating from the East and taking over Spanish California.

@caidengreen8366

5 жыл бұрын

Montello Newbie 😐🤡

@temich1985

5 жыл бұрын

also the first-ever ship that was built in California was built at Fort Ross

(1:42) "News of this island was soon received in Moscow" - the capital of Russia back then was Saint-Petersburg )))))

@diomiherrington

6 жыл бұрын

You mean Leningrad?

@ahtu7000

6 жыл бұрын

Saint-Petersburg was renamed to Leningrad in XX century, while expedition happened in XVIII. So no - it reached Saint-Petersburg.

@novuki

6 жыл бұрын

its Petrograd :)

@barackobama6715

6 жыл бұрын

Carlo Alvero It was only renamed Petrograd after the Russian Empire sold Alaska....

@edgars112233

6 жыл бұрын

+THE GRIB PROD. - Ноты, аккорды ну а как еще они поймут, о ком речь?

In 1910, My Great Grandfather, Stepan Sergeyvich Shvets Took his family to Hawaii. In 1917, he was photograpged along with my GGmother and their oldest daughter. It was taken for an interview to be repatriated back to Russia for the war effort. I found the actual written interview which included extra children, one was my Grandmother. After Pearl Harbor was struck by the Japanese, My Gmother and Gfather and their little 3 boy family moved to North Carolina. And now, here I am some many years later.

@dakers2052

5 жыл бұрын

I am assuming your great-grandparents eventually settled in Hawaii and were not repatriated back to Russia? Russia has a long history of interaction in the Hawaiian Islands (search for Fort Elizabeth on Kauai island in your browser).

@jdmcarandmotorcycle

5 жыл бұрын

Лана айда к нам

@waynesalvador9925

4 жыл бұрын

Well they found paradise in the Carolinas.

@drServitis

4 жыл бұрын

@@dakers2052 You didn't read her entire comment. Her great grand-parents moved to North Carolina from Hawaii after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

@dakers2052

4 жыл бұрын

@@drServitis I interpreted it as her grandparents, not great-grandparents (who I was referring to). "My Gmother and Gfather and their little 3 boy family moved to North Carolina. And now, here I am some many years later." She never says what exactly happened to her great-grandparents.

I am Alaskan Native and I was born and baptized in an Eastern Orthodox Cathedral but I am not "Russian" I am Aleut. So we have a lot of Russian influence.

@Pythoner

3 жыл бұрын

No-one's calling you Russian. Orthodox Churches are named after their national patriarchies or metropolitans so in your case it would probably have been an American Orthodox Church (which was granted autocephaly from the Russian Orthodox Church back in the Cold War; which basically means seperation). But essentially most Orthodox churches in America are descended from the Russian Patriarchy so it would be very similar to Russian Orthodoxy

@pinksnorlx

7 ай бұрын

This. 100%. That Creole nonsense is ridiculous

It wasn't just the effectiveness of the Russian Orthodox priests in converting Native Alaskans. Their methodology of mission work was a model of respect and cultural awareness that chose not to subjugate existing native traditions, but to teach that they were also seeking truth and the divine. There are some excellent histories of the efforts of the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska. Thanks for all your work. I've shared and recommended many times. Tom S.

@atkkeqnfr

5 жыл бұрын

Its basically the opposite of how Moscow Patriarch "Orthodox" priests are today

@ethiop_frum

5 жыл бұрын

@@atkkeqnfr not exactly! Every time Moscow Patriarch was like a "Church's King", but everywhere and everytime more and more priests live like native people. It's a Russian way - an ordinary priest is married and lives with his family among the people in which he serves, he becomes one with his community. And his whole family becomes a part of the people, an example for people's lives.

@drServitis

4 жыл бұрын

Christianity is the only true faith and all native peoples must leave their false traditional beliefs and be converted to it.

@garrycompton7214

4 жыл бұрын

The real truth ! The Russians didn't butcher the natives , like the US/ Europeans did in the lower forty eight. However, the US during WW II did account for many deaths - when they moved the Aleuts to the main land. I fished next to the Russians in Homer - in the 70s.

@user-hv4et7dq2j

4 жыл бұрын

@@garrycompton7214 I guess you don't know about the Awa'uq massacre.

Fun fact: Athabaskan is related to Navajo and Apache as well as a few tribes in parts of California. When the chief of Minto and his family stayed at our house in Anchorage, his wife was Navajo and the languages were similar enough, they could speak to each other. This is shown on the language map shown.

@jeanettewaverly2590

5 жыл бұрын

Yep. Anthropologists refer to the Alaskan and Canadian contingent as Northern Athabaskans and the folks in the lower 48 states as Southern Athabaskans.

@keirfarnum6811

5 жыл бұрын

Jeanette Waverly Hi! Got my BA Anth at UAA. I do miss Anchorage. AK was a great place to live.

@jeanettewaverly2590

5 жыл бұрын

@@keirfarnum6811 I got mine at the University of New Mexico, in the heart of Southern Athabaskanland. Let's hear it for Anthros everywhere!

they sold it after the Crimea war to prevent it from falling into British or French hands, as the British population was on the rise in British Columbia the Russians feared invasion so they sold it to get profit

@hectorvega621

6 жыл бұрын

storm Front and it help with the war.

@conveyor2

5 жыл бұрын

@@hectorvega621 No the Crimean War ended the decade before.

@hectorvega621

5 жыл бұрын

@@conveyor2 Well that was disappointing.

@Boyar300AV

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly that's a reasonable explanation. Also no one knew about natural resources such as gold.

@karlalitak3523

5 жыл бұрын

It was more than the Crimean war. Bering's explorer group killed some sea otters to survive, sleeping on their fur and eating their meat. They were surprised to see how much those pelts sold for to the Chinese during their return, which had a lot to do with their interest in Alaska. The Russians enslaved the Aleuts to hunt sea otters until they were mostly wiped out. By the time the sea otters were hunted out, some Aleuts were trading with British and Americans and thus were able to acquire firearms. Because of historical treatment against them, it became very dangerous to be a Russian in Alaska. With that danger and the fact that Alaska no long longer had a lot of sea otters left to exploit the Crimean war was just one more reason to get rid of Alaska.

Russians also colonized some of northern california before the spanish.

@Masaman

7 жыл бұрын

I believe there was only one settlement with only a handful of settlers, but it is interesting!

@blsi4037

5 жыл бұрын

Fort Ross in 1812.

@dennistravers8392

5 жыл бұрын

Yes; up near Elk, CA and other environs near there.

@bulbasaurpokemon3573

5 жыл бұрын

What "Spanish", what country etc. was and/or is that?

@blsi4037

5 жыл бұрын

Megis Channel Spain.

A couple corrections. In Alaska we don't call Eskimoes "Inuit", they are either Yupik or Inupiat depending on the tribe, Tlingit is pronounced "Cling-kit" and Kenai is pronounced "Key-Nye", the three largest Native groups are Yupik, Inupiat, and Athabaskan, and no one calls mixed race Alaska Natives Alaskan Creoles. Other than that not bad.

@joshuacampbell36

5 жыл бұрын

No we just call them natives the Creole part was dropped decades ago.

@kaiiheenjik1668

5 жыл бұрын

Joshua Campbell It depends on the person and what they want to be called but we prefer the term Alaskan native.

@harrykrumpacker871

5 жыл бұрын

And Nikolaevsk is pronounced Nik-O-Ly-Visk.

@coffeewithalexander

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, there are many more Alaskan Native tribes than just the few you mention, and they are commonly just called Alaskan Natives, not Inuit, Yupik, Inupiat, Tlingit, nor any other specific tribal name, unless that tribe is specifically known and being referenced for some reason.

@coffeewithalexander

5 жыл бұрын

In agreement with alaskadrifter, in almost half a century of interacting with other Alaskans, including many from the previous 2 generations, i can't recall a single time the term "Creole" was used to refer to Native Alaskans of mixed tribal lineage. That honestly feels like it's disrespectful in so many ways. Then again, we, in my family, at least, generally didn't spend much time around those who weren't nice people. And, typically, outspoken "racists" weren't well accepted in Alaskan culture. i suspect that has much to do with the diversity that has been synonymous with Alaska for thousands of years, as well as the required interdependence to survive/thrive. Few have been able to survive Alaska very long by themselves, despite many foolish attempts.

It's great that ethnicity and race can be dealt with in an educational and entertaining way without chauvinism or guilt

@LetsGoGetThem

5 жыл бұрын

Chauvanism? yikes.

@chocomanger6873

5 жыл бұрын

Only a white person would make a comment like that.

@thehardliner9760

2 жыл бұрын

@@chocomanger6873 And only white people would say their race is superior, which is exactly his point.

@JonDoeNeace

3 ай бұрын

The Russians deserve some guilt for this as much as any other colonizer.

In fact, Russian settlers had reached North California. The fort Ross for example

allot of Russian people still here..where i live ..from here in kenai all the way to homer there are several communities and villages and a couple of historical churches..and every summer my family camps out at a local lake where several Russian woman take there children and camp out at the same lake pretty much all of July while there husbands are out fishing..it is always good times and i have always had the deepest respect for the Russian people and there children are absolutely marvelous and well mannered and charismatic and the woman are absolutely radiant and fun loving bunch.we look forward to seeing them every year and it has been a joy to see how much they have grown every year,,there are many Russian people in Alaska and they represent there culture and people well as Alaska has always been home to some of Russia's people and there history is not only part of our history but Russia's as well.

Russian Orthodox monks also treated Alaska's native inhabitants better than the American settlers

@xanshen9011

5 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately the same cannot be said for the Siberians...

@CaptainArdalas

5 жыл бұрын

Ding dong so long they call it long schlong what about siberians? They still live there nobody cares now and cared about them back then . American propaganda at it’s funniest. Ask locals if there would be Genozide they would remember it init?

@danmseattle975

5 жыл бұрын

St. Herman of Alaska, and St.Innocent are 2 examples. These two holy men loved the Alaskan natives and defended them against the brutal Russian fur traders. Eastern Orthodoxy has never been aligned with a colonial power, unlike Catholicism and Protestantism.

@atkkeqnfr

5 жыл бұрын

@@danmseattle975 not true. After the Bolshevik revolution the Communist party took over the Russian orthodox church. Today the Freemasons run the Greek and Syrian orthodox churches. Sorry to disappoint you but that is the reality in the 21st century.

@ivanduvalierveryevildictat8940

5 жыл бұрын

@@xanshen9011 Russian Defense Minister Shoigu is a native Siberian. if you slander Russians on the Internet, he will take care of you. )))

Alaska and Siberia seem to have very similar geography, both places are fantastic places to think about visiting.

@chuckbrown7602

6 жыл бұрын

a google user Alaska is a paradise, Siberia is where exiles go to die

Russian settlements all the way to Northern California.. The Russians had build an outpost in Northern California in 1812, and the first Orthodox church in the continental United States was build at Fort Ross. ..

In addition to traditional Russian Orthodox followers, there is a settlement of "Old Believers" who broke off from the mainstream Orthodox.

@patrickmartin8783

5 жыл бұрын

Donald Petkus yup

@bitchtits9844

5 жыл бұрын

Theres lots of russian villages

@bitchtits9844

5 жыл бұрын

In alaska

@atkkeqnfr

5 жыл бұрын

The Russian orthodox church abroad (completely separate from ROCOR) has a mission church in Moscow Idaho. They are old believers. They claim the current Moscow Patriarch are crypto-Marxists.

@busterbiloxi3833

5 жыл бұрын

Back to Moscow with all of them.

I have to say, I actually enjoy your videos. I usually never comment, or even like videos on KZread, but your channel is very entertaining. As a history buff myself I enjoy hearing the little weird things that make up our modern history. Keep up the good work.

I live in Northern California and visited Fort Ross on the annual festival where they do the complete reenactments of how this Fort operated during the Russian Colonial times. This Russian Fort used to supply food and other goodies to Russian Alaska, it was so cool to tee the living history

I spent some time in Alaska when i was in the U.S.Air Force in 1980s Loved it.

the reason your channel is going upwards is because you make good content :)

I live in Delta Junction, AK. There are many ethnic russians here, so much so that the small local market has has whole sections of foodstuffs with Cyrillic writing on them.

I love when I see a KZread that talks about something that I never thought about. Thank you for feeding my brain.

Just reading the Michener "Alaska" book. It doesn't follow the Russian creoles past the gold rush era, so this was very informative!

sombody stop this madman his channel is too interesting.

@Kanal7Indonesia

5 жыл бұрын

He's like Wikipedia in person

@chocomanger6873

5 жыл бұрын

What's your race?

@chrishill6276

5 жыл бұрын

It would be good if he spoke english

I'm Orthodox, and I've seen a lot of icons in Orthodox Church in America (OCA) parishes with saints like Herman the Aleut. The pastor at my old parish leads the Sunday school on a youth trip to Alaska every year.

@patriciah3235

6 жыл бұрын

Tristan Lotz St. Herman of Alaska, St. Peter the Aleut, St Yakov, St. Juvenali, St. Innocent, St. Tikhon.

I was born in Alaska & we homesteaded there before it became a State. This was pioneer Alaska. We homesteaded south of Ninilchick. The Orthodox church located there was then in active use.our " neighbors" referred to themselves as Russian/ Native. They also said the Russians had used Alaska as a penal colony, similar to the way Britain used Australia. Prisoneers were brought over & dropped off with nothing. It was sink or swim!! Many married into the local Native Tribes to survive. My Father taught school in the Bristol Bay area & up around the Circle. Certain villages were basically ruled by the Orthodocx priest. These were " dry"( no alcohol) settlements. These same villages operated on the Old Style(OS) calender used in Tzarist times prior to The Russian Revolution. There is between a 2-3 week difference in dates. So, the public school operated on the OS calender. All holidays were celebrated at different dates than other public schools across the American Union! This was back in the late 1970's. So modern Alaska operating under a 100 yocalender from a foreign country!! How does that make your head spin!!

@user-xg7pd6bd7j

3 күн бұрын

My family homesteaded in Ninilchik in 1947

Can you do a video about the genetics of the baltics? I was shocked that latvians and lithuanians have more finnic(N M178 haplogroup) than estonians do.

@Masaman

7 жыл бұрын

Really? I'll have to look into it

@jeremyelias5428

7 жыл бұрын

Masaman yay latvian is on average 38% and Lithuanian is on average 42% and estonia on average 34% N M178 haplogroup Thanks for taking my suggestion

@jeremyelias5428

7 жыл бұрын

legofreak446 That's culturally. Genetically Estonians are far more closer to baltic populations than to finnish people

@jeremyelias1370

7 жыл бұрын

legofreak446 Speaking an indo european means nothing. By that logic swedes and persians are brothers

@kaloarepo288

7 жыл бұрын

Some people get race mixed up with linguistic categories -if you look at most Finns, Estonians, Hungarians etc they look European -many blond and blue eyed but yet they speak a non Indo-European language -the two are quite distinct -black Americans speak a European language (English) but are not European by race -same applies to the Finno-Ugric speaking peoples -most European by race but linguistically not.

I grew up on Chichagof Island in the 70s. One of the oldest Orthodox churches still stands there in Hoonah, a Tlingit fishing village.

*Me being born in Alaska, “How the hell am I 87% Russian?! *watches video, “ohhhhhhh that makes more sense.”

As an Alaskan myself, I was actually surprised that you got just over 55%of the pronunciation correct. My mom's side of the family has been here since before it was a state, so I'm a 4th gen Alaskan.

As Alaskan born and breed I can say you are accurate. Fun fact, mountain view (neighborhood in Anchorage) is the most diverse in the US. Most of Asia is represented.

Interesting search I'm waiting for Native Hawaii and new Zealand next please Wish your channel continues that exponential growth too Can't wait for the Q&A plz make it ASAP

@Masaman

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sticking with me man! You've been here for a while, less than 700 subs, I believe. QnA will probably be up on my second channel within the week (it's very hectic at my new apartment)

@MohamedMansour-qi7vk

7 жыл бұрын

Masaman what's the name of your second channel and where could we ask you

@Masaman

7 жыл бұрын

It's called "Mason the Man" creative name I know. You can leave me a question on my last video

@Masaman

7 жыл бұрын

Here's a link: kzread.info/dron/zQ_KS2ikIc_sLtZBmZBWOw.html

Could you do some videos of the Less known European nations like San Marino? Or roman genetic legacy on the Middle East and North Africa?

@gypsysoul1245

7 жыл бұрын

A lot of levantis today look white and not Arab, in fact most of them are white

@IgotDis14

7 жыл бұрын

While most Arabs are indeed white, that is only true if you mean white as in skin tone, not genetic background.

@Bendaman2001

7 жыл бұрын

IgotDis14 I mean as in genetic background

@TheVideomaker2341

7 жыл бұрын

Cleopatra He meant to say what country from North Africa.

@alexalpine4490

7 жыл бұрын

I would love a San Marino episode! European microstates are so fascinating

NOT SOLD! Rented for 99 years! And that term ended long ago...

@Cobruh_Commander

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry, all sales are final.

@DrewPicklesTheDark

4 жыл бұрын

The Russian Federation is the legal successor to the USSR, and the USSR relinquished it's claims on Alaska at the order of Stalin. Modern Russia has no valid claims on it (legally speaking), the only way it would, would be to literally revive the Russian monarchy and instill the Romanov heir to make a claim. So basically, whether you agree with the choice he made or not, it's Stalin's fault.

"Yes, there are Black people in Alaska." That was like my phrase that I had to constantly say when people found out I was from Iowa, especially when I lived in California.

@vernicejillmagsino9603

2 жыл бұрын

They came to Alaska to escape the racism in Continental United States

@pinksnorlx

7 ай бұрын

Anchorage is one of the most diverse places in the United States. Lots if interesting people from all over the world here

Between 1816 and 1817 Russia built 3 forts on the Island of Kauai in Hawaii. Remnants of Fort Elizabeth near the mouth of the Waimea River still exists today.

I am from Alaska. Most of the imagration that comes to alaska is from the military. Alaska has the most vetrans per capida out of any state. No one uses the word creole in alaska. And way more people are part native and white then you said. And now most of the ethnic russians came in the 50's becouse of russian old believers xoming from south america. And then agian more russian refugees from the fall of the soviet union.

@tomsenft7434

6 жыл бұрын

Wes Phillip : did you write your comment in Alaskan?

@sulmanchatha410

5 жыл бұрын

Hy brother how are you

@cjwars2828

5 жыл бұрын

dude if any thing we getting all the california wash outs all this bs gang bang all from their. we dont have a justice so they come hear to rack up new bill that wont connect to their 48 sheets

@cjwars2828

5 жыл бұрын

lots of colors take white names so just more bland more like not @SUI LAT

@mononoho8570

5 жыл бұрын

I think alaska is the only state that have imigrants from my country Montenegro. Governer of Alaska was John Dapchevich.

During Russian era there was also a Finnish minority in Alaska. They had first Protestant church in Alaska. They had also a small Finnish school. Uno Gugnaeus (1810 - 1888) a Finnish priest and teacher used to stay at Novo-Arkangel´s Sitka 1840 - 1845. First Protestant church was founded by him 1843.

This channel is the gift that keeps on giving

Yay! A video on Alaska!!! This part of our history gets over looked often. Thanks. ~a random chick from Talkeetna AK

@joshuacampbell36

5 жыл бұрын

The bluegrass festival there has went to hell!

@chocomanger6873

5 жыл бұрын

Alaska gets overlooked? I'd hate to hear what you think of Wisconsin then.

This is a cool channel, I've stumbled across it a few times because I'm a huge history/ Geography buff. nice content.

Salutations from Turkey! I have recently discovered your channel. Thank you for invaluable information you give to us. Thank you indeed!

Ok one more.... 9:43 is pronouced "Nick-o-lie-vas(k)" we actually have several russian communities on the kenai peninsula, not just Nikolaevsk, there is also Voznesenka (which was founded when a group of people left nikolaevsk), and Kachemak Selo, which are out past homer at the END of the road, and several other unincorporated villages in the kachemak bay area.

You forget to mrntion that every years at least 50.000 (and increasing) Alaskian citizens sign a decret to give Alaska back to Russia. As the native Alaskians knows from tellings; that Russians treated the indigenous peoples very good the oppodite of the US settlers, that slaughteted many of the natives. Same with the natiive in the US territories. Russians traded down till Mexico and mostly California, where they were mostly welcomed and marry many native women. After the Europea Settlers arrived and stole California from Mexico, the few Russians went back to Alaska, were till today they stay proud on theyr heritage, that attrackted many natives, not only over religeon.

@baneofbanes

6 ай бұрын

Bullshit

"What happened?" Ask the Eskimos with Russian names who belong to the Russian Orthodox Church.

@jscustoms5916

5 жыл бұрын

Racist

@binozia-old-2031

5 жыл бұрын

JS Customs calling someone an eskimo is racist?

@jscustoms5916

5 жыл бұрын

Bino Dino maxilimilanMus royal guar I was joking but there’s a lot of tribes and people just disrespect them by saying “eskimos”. That’s like looking at an admin person, not knowing where in Asia they are from and just calling them Chinese. It’s disrespectful

@punnequraq

5 жыл бұрын

JS Customs Yeah, we prefer native alaskan is you don’t know which tribe we are

@binozia-old-2031

5 жыл бұрын

Remy Fagerstrom ok good to know

nice video, informative and to-the-point. good visuals, appropriate and not just the typical google searched pics. i appreciate the clear narrative, lack of excess dialogue, and the confident delivery of information without annoyance. thank you for teaching me and not annoying me at the same time!! earned my support. new sub as of today :)

Excellent presentation! I am very pleased to have discovered your KZread site. Keep up the good work!

Well done young man! I applaud both your research and your presentation : it was in depth and well presented. You young sir have a future in History. I am happy and proud for/of you! Well done.4.0!Keep up the great work . You will go far!

Its amazing to me how the history of my state is so different than today's culture. Many places farther north do still carry traditional values, but if you look at how we live today here in Alaska, you would never guess how rough and hard its history has been. I mean, I drive a Volvo XC90, live in a gated subdivision north of Anchorage in a home with central heat and a community pool, commute to the city everyday on paved 55 MPH highways, and get a Starbucks from the neighborhood shopping center before heading out every morning. Such a huge difference compared to what Alaska was not even 100 years ago. What does piss me off however, is when people ask me if I live in an igloo, if we have roads with street lights, or if we eat reindeer - which I won't lie, is actually true. Reindeer hotdogs are delicious. My vegetarian sister is going to visit me and murder me now.

I stumbled upon your video while I was looking for something else. But I watched it and it's truly very informative. You did a great search on the subject.

I lived in Nikiski AK and knew a Russian-Native family that had been there for over a century. They were a beautiful group of people that lived in a huge ancient log cabin.

I love your videos so much! I've always had an interest in anthropology in general and having a diverse (mostly euro- mom calls us Heinz57) background and my children having an even more diverse background, I find your videos very helpful in our homeschooling! Keep it up!

Excellant video you taught me something I did not know. God Bless you.

Fantastic Video with lot of informations. Everyone much watch. Please make more and more of such informative videos. They are full of information and knowledge.

I watch every documentary on Alaska that i can find...i love watching how families are living off grid and off the land....and the ANWR is amazing Thank you for taking time to share this well studied information... I just subscribed to your channel...

you mentioned Hawaii, there was briefly a Russian colony on Kauai

There are far more people living in Alaska who claim Russian descent that can be accounted for by historical statistics. It's kind of an Alaskan thing, I guess. Much like people from Louisiana claiming French descent in numbers that are simply too great, or people from New England claiming to be descendants of Mayflower immigrants, in unrealistic numbers.

I'm a huge history geek and your channel is very helpful when I want to know something the book doesn't tell me. Just subscribed!

Great video! We are visiting Alaska soon & I love learning about the history of a place!

Just to let you know... Ninilchik south of Kenai north of Homer is a village with Russian ancestry, and Athabaskan. It was considered a "Retirement" community. Some of the cities names still have Russian "Stems". Kenai, where I live is short for Kenaitze. Kenaitze is a Russian and Native language mix. It means People of the river. Other than that good video.

@birgbirg111

2 жыл бұрын

Well this is interesting, if Kenai was the tribe name then Kenaitze or Kenaitsy (Кенайцы) how it would be transliterated nowadays would just mean Kenaians. I´m a "continental" russian and this video was very informative for me :)

@nathanieldavis1671

2 жыл бұрын

@@birgbirg111 ya from my understanding kenaitze means people of the kenai River

Really loved this video! I was born and raised in Alaska and I still reside here. This was very informative! Just wanted to correct your pronunciation of the Kenai Peninsula: it's pronounced Keenai (long e rather than a short e). Thanks for the video!

Excellent! Thank you for a clean, informative video. Please keep it up.

Alaska is probably the hardest state to invade.

I had no idea the guy doing these was such a youngster. Great research, and great videos.

@jeanettewaverly2590

5 жыл бұрын

It was good to finally see his face! He does excellent work.

I always watch to the end just to see that dank farewell pose.

Thank you so much for this video it was great! I love learning about different cultures no one would rally talk about.

One of my favorite channels on KZread now. I love learning about different people and cultures.

Lot of Americans have Russian roots and ancestors.And if we talk about other Slavic ancestors then even more.

Sitka was the capital of the Russian colony. I thought there were still people of Russian descent there?

@patriciah3235

6 жыл бұрын

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I'm really interested in this stuff too. The fact that Russian Orthodoxy maintains a surprisingly significant presence in Alaska is really cool and almost like a wink and nod to the territory's Russian history, albeit an undertone of it.

I spend like 7 years of my life living in that village called Nikolaevsk, and when you showed that church I used to visit every Saturday and Sunday. It made me homesick for some reason.

@LeoN-wc9od

6 жыл бұрын

Edit: I even know that woman you showed in the picture. I know in which house she lives, what store she owns and where she came from lol. Two of my brothers lives in that village too. It's a little changed though, it happened so long time ago.

Anchorage didn't exist until 1914. Even then, it was a tent-city for the railroad.

Thanks so much. I really enjoy these videos.

This is a great video, but one thing annoys me: you should be calling the lower 48 the “contiguous states”, not the continental ones, as Alaska is part of the North American continent.

@pinksnorlx

7 ай бұрын

Absolutely good point

Great vid man!

Great video as always.

Best part of the video, is how he prenounced Kenai

It's pronounced "keen eye" (Kenai). A really good book on the history of Russia in Alaska is Orthodox Alaska, by Fr. Micheal Oleksa. The religious content aside, it reveals the contrasts between the relationships the Russians had with the natives based on equality and acknowledgement that this was native land, verses the US govt's relationship based on the way they always dealt with native tribes down below.

Thank you very much.impressivly well done and very welly narrated.

great stuff ! I'm your biggest fan from Syria :D .. would love to see something about Syrian ethnicity groups and history, it's a fascinating subject and there are many conflicting theories about the origin of the people who make up Syria today .. I would really like to hear your take on it :D

@Masaman

7 жыл бұрын

Wow thanks man! I plan on doing a video a video about Arabs and the Levant soon. Congratulations on almost defeating DAESH. Hopefully the fighting will come to a stop soon.

@itsokaytobeclownpilled5937

6 жыл бұрын

Asef B Can you give us an update on what the US is doing in Syria since we all know the media & government lies to everyone.

I don't know where I heard this but in a video I watched it said that since the British and Russian Empire were colonial rivals Russia, in addition to lack of interest and perceived non-strategic importance, Russia felt it could not manage the the territory very well due to its distance and size and gave it to the US to sort of box in the Brits in Canada. Am I correct?

@ab9840

7 жыл бұрын

Being too far the Russians could not really defend Alaska from a possible UK. invasion from Canada. They also needed the money. After al, the Crimean war had depleted there treasury. So they sold it to the US, th UK arch rival in North America.

@johnalexander651

7 жыл бұрын

It's called the great game if you want to read up on it.

@Reym_ai

7 жыл бұрын

It's so sad that people forgot about the union of the US and Russia. American propaganda has fulfilled its mission ...

@roller4312

7 жыл бұрын

+Vice Roy "perceived non-strategic importance" what strategic importance does Alaska have today?

@seriously8277

6 жыл бұрын

Not really because the uk and USA was fine with each other also Canada was cold enough.

I recently discovered your channel. You probably get this a lot, but it's amazing! It touches very weird and interesting subjects, and make them very accesible. Moreover, your ability to stay focused on facts and serious research, concerning ethnic topics (which are so sensitive and contentious), is a great and wonderful antidote to racial prejudice. So for now, just keep' em coming!

Thanks for sharing that. Living in Canada and at one point Dawson Creek BC, Mile 0, have always wondered about some of the Early Stuff about Alaska.

can you make a video about the people who lived in europe before the indoeuropesns?

@2AKgym

6 жыл бұрын

VizualProduction I don't want to shit on your imagination, but I'm afraid no people lived in Europe before the indoeuropeans

@samirkarabasic2351

5 жыл бұрын

@@2AKgym dumbass, what about the greeks, illyrians, latins

@Elvajaak

5 жыл бұрын

Have You ever heard about finno-ugric people? Looks like not. @@2AKgym

@2AKgym

5 жыл бұрын

@@Elvajaak finno Ugric people are from Asia and came much later on; don't talk about things you don't understand

@Elvajaak

5 жыл бұрын

@@2AKgym U must be really stupid if You say so. Do some research before you reply again...

A vid on Kazaria would be cool as for some reason despite it being such a massive place, it appears to be blotted out of our western history books.

@bulbasaurpokemon3573

5 жыл бұрын

Also about Caucasian Khazar jews and Khazarian mafia

@atkkeqnfr

5 жыл бұрын

@@bulbasaurpokemon3573 that is when this channel mysteriously starts losing subscribers

Just subscrbed a couple of weeks ago, or so. Great channel, & videos. Reminds me of a set of old books, hard to find today; " the secret museum of mankind ". I think now on web ?Thanks.

Informative and put together very well, subbed

Considering your intro, I assumed you were going to talk about the history of Russian influence in Hawai'i as well. Either way, great video!

@shaunibabe1

5 жыл бұрын

What about the Portuguese influence of hawaii, the ukulele created by portuguese settlers.

Aw i wish the russians colonized more of canada. That would be so cool

As always, this is another excellent video! Keep up the great work you are doing.

Like and subscribed! I never knew much about Alaskan history until now. I learned more in 11 minutes than I did in 11 years in school.

@holoholopainen1627

6 жыл бұрын

tag1462 Are You sitting at Back row ? - at School ?

I live in AK. Good info about the great state of AK.

@corgen5448

5 жыл бұрын

Same

Do a video about the turkic division between Caucasian and asians

@suomi0075

7 жыл бұрын

They also have relations with Finns, And other Uralics. My father is Turk and mother is Finn but I call myself Finnish because my father died when I was 2 years old. I could not learn anything from him about my Turkic blood :(

@eliasfrahat7074

7 жыл бұрын

Suomi 007 I feel sad for you :( how are Finnish people are they okey

@suomi0075

7 жыл бұрын

Yes we are ok.

@eliasfrahat7074

7 жыл бұрын

Suomi 007 how good for you :) have a nice day

@suomi0075

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks you have too.

I started watching your videos yesterday and I really enjoy them. I like how they touch on topics that aren’t widely discussed.

thank you for the great video brother. very very interesting. and unexpected! big hello from Serbia. keep up the good work.

9:00 Russian Empire From Norway to India, from Germany to Canada.

interesting! i did not know about this "filipino-connection", too bad though that you did not mention that for a long time the territory was heavily contested by Russia, England and Spain which built forts which sometimes were close-by like spanish and russian settlements on Kodiak island, etc. Spain abandoned the region as the mexican independence announced itself, and England was kind of busy trying to settle things in Canada and finding the northwest passage... this unclear territorial issue is what provoked the Lewis & Clark expedition in the first place, and from then on the presence of the US in the region... which Japan jeopardized for a while during WW2 in Attu and environs

very nice report, interesting and well made. Thanks

Hey thanks for that! that was really awesome and informative! i could have found most of that information on my own (but it would take a lot of time), so i really appreciate how you put that all together and explained it all! good stuff! have a beautiful day!