Before an 1867 sale, this island group was known as the Catherine Archipelago
Empress Catherine II, in a decree of May 4, 1764, commanded the 
Admiralty .... on Kodiak Island, K. A. Samoilov, called for the settlement of artels (
groups or ..... and in 1867 the Tsarist government sold Alaska to the United States
, which... [DOC] [TLE] Section 1 -Dispatchable Hydro Energy.pdf - Alaska Industrial ... [PAR] miles southwest of Anchorage in the Aleutian Chain archipelago).