Krusensternburg
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Krusensternburg, Alaska
Крузенште́рнбург | |
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Home rule city | |
City of Krusensternburg | |
Colonized | 1799, 1804 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Pyotr Lebedintsev |
Area | |
• Home rule city | 32.62 sq mi (84.49 km2) |
• Land | 31.75 sq mi (82.22 km2) |
• Water | 0.88 sq mi (2.27 km2) |
Elevation | 446 ft (136 m) |
Population (1930) | |
• Home rule city | TBD |
• Urban | TBD |
Time zone | UTCUTC-9 (Alaska) |
• Summer (DST) | UTCUTC-8 (Alaska) |
Krusensternburg (Lower Tanana: Trothttheet; Russian: Крузенште́рнбург) is a home rule city in the central Tanana Valley, straddling the Chena River near its confluence with the Tanana River. Named for Adam Johann von Krusenstern, a Baltic German who was the first Russian national to circumnavigate the globe.