Preobrazhenskoye, Kamchatka Krai
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Preobrazhenskoye (Russian: Преображе́нское) is a village in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, located on Medny Island in the Commander Islands group east of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
The village was founded in the 1800s by Aleut (Unangan) settlers from Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands. They engaged in whaling and sealing with harpoons and spears. Fishing and hunting of whales and other marine mammals is still the mainstay of the economy there.
[edit] See also
- Nikolskoye, Kamchatka Krai, a larger village on Bering Island
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