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You are here: Home / News and Events / Please sign the petition to save the statue of Alexander Baranov in Sitka, Alaska.

Please sign the petition to save the statue of Alexander Baranov in Sitka, Alaska.

June 29, 2020 By cra-bm

We urge you to sign the petition against removing the statue of Alexander Baranov, founder of Novo-Arhangelsk (now the city of Sitka) and the first Russian governor of Alaska. Link to petition:

www.change.org/BaranovStatue

Here the letter that was sent to Mayor Paxton and Assembly members of the City and Borough of Sitka regarding removal of the Baranov statue:

[gview file=”http://just2009.temp.domains/~russiana/russian-americans/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CRA-letter-Sitka-re-Baranov-monument.pdf”]

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