Ukraina was the farm and burial place of the Ukrainian patriot and exiled Orthodox priest Agapius Honcharenko and his wife Albina. Honcharenko was the first nationally conscious Ukrainian to arrive in the United States. From 1868 to 1872, he published The Alaska Herald, the first American newspaper in Russian and Ukrainian languages. He wrote the first book for the educational use of Native Alaskans. After moving there from San Francisco in 1873, he continued to publish political literature that was smuggled into Czarist Russia. He was a prominent scholar, humanitarian, and early champion for human rights.