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LORD OF ALASKA: BARANOV AND THE RUSSIAN ADVENTURE-Hector Chevigny -Viking...
Self-Made Russian. Shelekhov planted his settlement on Kodiak Island-in the lee of the peninsula that breaks into the bits and pieces of the Aleutians. To manage his new colony Shelekhov chose middle-aged Merchant Aleksandr Andrevich Baranov. Baranov was that rarest of Russians, a self-made man. He began as a small trader, worked his way to ownership of a Siberian glass factory. Baranov is the hero of Author Chevigny's impressive history of young Alaska...
...Baranov intended to stay five years in the Northwest, long enough to make money out of trading in sea otter furs. He stayed...
When he took over the settlement, Baranov was left without a sailing ship. He built his own. He mixed native moss with hot pitch for calking, used mountain ash for hardwood. He set Russians and natives digging for coal and iron, made waterproof paint from whale oil and red ocher. His ship had three masts, two decks. For sails Baranov commandeered tents, trousers, jackets, sewed them into great sheets with seal gut thread...
...high air command was wiped out in a single crash near Podolsk 20 mi. south of Moscow. Where they were going, whence they came, what caused the crash, remained a Kremlin secret. But next day in the City Hall in downtown Moscow the bodies lay in state: Peter Baranov, Vice Commissar for Heavy Industries in charge of Aviation; Abram Goltsman, Chief of Civil Aviation; his assistant, A. Petrov; Valentine Zarzar, former Vice Chief of Civil Aviation and now Chief of the Aviation Section of the State Planning Commission; O. Gobonov, director of Plant No. 22, Russia's most important...