Ivan Kupreyanov

Ivan Antonovich Kupreyanov ( or ; 1794 – 20 April 1857), also spelled in English as Kupreanof or as Kuprianov, served as the head of the Russian-American Company in Russian America from 1835 to 1840. He entered the Sea Cadet Corps at the age of 10, in 1809.

Kupreyanov served as a on the Mirny under captain Mikhail Lazarev during the First Russian Antarctic Expedition (1819-1821), a circumnavigation of the Southern Ocean led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. Departing from New Archangel on 30 September 1840 with his family, Kupreyanov continued his career in the Imperial Russian Navy, and won promotion to the rank of vice admiral in October 1852.

Legacy Kupreanof Island in the Alexander Archipelago (the Alaska Panhandle) was named after him, and indirectly the city of Kupreanof, Alaska, which is on that island.