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Russian Mission

Russian Mission is a city in . It was the location of a fur trading post of the Russian-American Company in 1842. After the sale of Russian-American possessions to the United States in 1867, it was officially named Russian Mission in the early 1900s.
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  • Type: Village with 421 residents
  • Description: city in Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska, United States
  • Also known as: “Ekogmute”, “Ikagmiut”, “Ikogmut”, “Ikogmute”, “Iquk”, “Russian Mission, AK”, “Russian Mission, Alaska”, “Selo Ikogmyut”, and “The Mission”
  • Postal code: 99657

Places of Interest

Highlights include Russian Mission Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Uli Elch, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a state-owned public-use located in Russian Mission, a city in the of the U.S. state of .

Russian Mission

Latitude
61.785° or 61° 47′ 6″ north
Longitude
-161.32028° or 161° 19′ 13″ west
Population
421
Elevation
112 feet (34 metres)
IATA airport code
RSH
United Nations Location Code
US RSH
Open location code
92HWQMMH+XV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150916650
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5873095
Wiki­data ID
Q79337
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Mari—“Russian Mission” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Russian Mission, Alaska”
  • Albanian: “Russian Mission”
  • Arabic: “روسيان ميسجن”
  • Basque: “Iqugmiut”
  • Basque: “Russian Mission”
  • Catalan: “Russian Mission”
  • Cebuano: “Russian Mission”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕاشن میشن، ئالاسکا”
  • Chamorro: “Russian Mission”
  • Chechen: “Рашен-Мишен”
  • Chinese: “Russian Mission”
  • Chinese: “俄罗斯米申”
  • Czech: “Russian Mission”
  • Danish: “Russian Mission”
  • Dutch: “Russian Mission”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “روسيان ميسجن”
  • French: “Russian Mission”
  • German: “Russian Mission”
  • Gilaki: “راشن میشن”
  • Haitian: “Russian Mission”
  • Irish: “Russian Mission”
  • Italian: “Russian Mission”
  • Ladin: “Russian Mission”
  • Luxembourgish: “Russian Mission”
  • Malagasy: “Russian Mission, Alaska”
  • Malagasy: “Russian Mission”
  • Malayalam: “റഷ്യൻ മിഷൻ, അലാസ്ക”
  • Malayalam: “റഷ്യൻ മിഷൻ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Russian Mission”
  • Newari: “रसियन मिसन (अलास्का)”
  • Newari: “रसियन मिसन, अलास्का”
  • Newari: “रसियन मिसन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Russian Mission”
  • Norwegian: “Russian Mission”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Russian Mission”
  • Persian: “راشین میشن، آلاسکا”
  • Persian: “راشین میشن، الاسکا”
  • Persian: “راشین میشن”
  • Polish: “Russian Mission”
  • Portuguese: “Russian Mission”
  • Russian: “Рашен-Мишен”
  • Russian: “Русская Миссия”
  • Serbian: “Рашан Мишон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Russian Mission, Alaska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Russian Mission”
  • Sicilian: “Russian Mission”
  • Slovak: “Russian Mission”
  • South Azerbaijani: “راشین میشن، آلاسکا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “راشین میشن”
  • Spanish: “Russian Mission (Alaska)”
  • Spanish: “Russian Mission”
  • Tatar: “Рашен-Мишен”
  • Ukrainian: “Рашен-Мішен”
  • Uzbek: “Russian Mission”
  • Volapük: “Russian Mission”
  • Western Mari: “Рашен-Мишен”

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