Editing List of Russian people (section)

===Explorers of Russian America===
*[[A. A. Baranov|Alexander Baranov]], explorer and governor of [[Russian America]], founder of [[Fort Ross]] in [[California]]
*[[Vitus Bering]], organiser of the [[Great Northern Expedition]], explorer of the [[Bering Sea]] and the [[Bering Strait]], founder of [[Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky]], discoverer of the southern Alaska, the [[Aleutian Islands]] and the [[Commander Islands]]
*[[Aleksei Chirikov]], discoverer of the Aleutian Islands and the northwestern coast of North America
*[[Ivan Fedorov (navigator)|Ivan Fyodorov]], discoverer of Alaska
*[[Mikhail Gvozdev]], discoverer of Alaska, author of the first instrumental maps of the [[Okhotsk Sea]] and [[Sakhalin]] shores
*[[Gerasim Izmailov]], author of the first detailed map of the [[Aleutian Islands]], founder of the first permanent Russian settlement in America
*[[Otto von Kotzebue]], circumnavigator, discoverer of a number of [[Pacific islands]] and [[Kotzebue Sound]] on Alaska
*[[Gavriil Pribylov]], discoverer of the [[Pribilof Islands]][[File:Grigory Shelikov.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Grigory Shelikhov]]]]
*[[Nikolai Rezanov]], founder of the [[Russian-American Company]], protagonist of the [[rock opera]] ''[[Juno and Avos (opera)|Juno and Avos]]''
*[[Gavriil Sarychev]], explorer of the [[Sea of Okhotsk]] and the [[Aleutian Islands]]
*[[Grigory Shelikhov]], founded the precursor of the [[Russian-American Company]] and the first permanent Russian settlements in America
*[[Lavrenty Zagoskin]], author of the first detailed description of the inner areas of Alaska