How and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the United States 150 years ago is actually two tales and two ...

A report by the Siberian Times has detailed one of Russia's more outlandish schemes to date: a super motorway that would connect the eastern border of Russia with Alaska in the United States.

The land bridge, now submerged under the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia, was above water from about 36,000 years ago to 11,000 years ago. Scientists thought it might have looked a lot ...

Boats connected far-flung towns and were essential ... Since 1867, when the United States purchased the colony of Alaska from Russia, fortune-seekers had migrated to the territory, mostly settling ...

The United States gained this ownership after it purchased Alaska from Russia in ... of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of Russia. As the two regions are connected to their mainland sponsors there ...