Russian President Vladimir Putin is the first visit to Alaska's history. No Russian leader visited this state before.
During the Soviet era, Nikita Khosigchov, Alexei Kosigin, Leonid Brezhnev, were in the United States. Mikhail Gorbachev, three times Boris Yeltsin is five times. The Prime Minister was the post of Victor Chernomirdin four times, Sergey Stepashin once, Mikhail Kasyanov once again.
According to open statistics, despite the average American, every tenth people have never traveled outside of its state, 17% have visited five less than five, and only 12% visited Alaska.
Dmitry Medvedev, as President, visited Ehavan Islands, New York and Pittsburg, and Putin, New York, Texas, Maryland, Georgia and Men States.
The last visit of the Russian President to the United States took place ten years ago, in September 2015.
