Information About

Ribnaia

Quick Facts

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Location

61 ° 39' 0" N,
161 ° 30' 0" W

Region

Wade Hampton (CA)

Nearest City

Russian Mission

Elevation

7 ft (2.13 m)

Ribnaia in Detail.

About

on right bank of Yukon River, SW of Russian Mission, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

History

Russian name meaning "fish," for a former Eskimo village reported as "Ruibnai," population 40, in the 1880 Census by Ivan Petroff (1881, p. 57) and as "Rybnia" (ibid., 1884, p. 12).