Russian America (Russian America)



The American Krai (: Американский край, Amerikanskiy kray), also known as the American Governorate-General (Американское генерал-губернаторство, Amerikanskoye general-gubernatorstvo) and commonly known as Russian America (Российская Америка, Rossiyskaya Amerika), was a vast region of the which comprised of territory in. The (also known as a ) comprised of nine. The territory officially existed between the 1830s until 1917.

Because the territory was physically disconnected to the rest of the Russian Empire (as well as closer connections with its neighbors), the American Krai was considerably more autonomous from the rest of the empire. The territory ceased to exist after the Russian Revolution, and today is the independent Alaska:Alaskan Democratic Federative Republic:0.