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Seldovia (Alutiiq: Angagkitaqnuuq; Dena'ina: Angidahtnu) is a city in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, on the south shore of Kachemak Bay opposite Homer, and its motto is "Alaska's Best Kept Secret."

The 2020 census recorded a population of 235 in Seldovia, with 115 households and 213 housing units, nearly half of which were vacant; the median age was 53.5 years.

In 1787 or 1788 a Russian fur trade post named Aleksandrovskaia was established at today's Seldovia by hunting parties under Evstratii Ivanovich Delarov of the Shelikhov-Golikov company, a precursor of the Russian-American Company.

The town's original Russian name, Seldevoy, translates to "Herring Bay," reflecting the significant herring population before rampant overfishing early in the 20th century, and an early Russian St. Nicholas Orthodox Church started in 1820 was built on top of an older aboriginal village site.

Seldovia was once an important "first stop" for ships sailing from Seward, Kodiak, and other points outside Cook Inlet, and at one time it was home to over 2,000 residents, though today fewer than 300 people live there year-round.

Seldovia was formally incorporated as a city on May 7, 1945, and it first appeared on the 1880 census as the unincorporated villages of Seldovia and Ostrovki, with 74 residents.

After the Good Friday earthquake of March 27, 1964, the surrounding land dropped six feet, and higher tides peaking at 32 feet submerged the town's boardwalk and flooded waterfront homes and businesses; the waterfront was rebuilt on higher ground using fill from Cap's Hill, and only one small section of boardwalk, known as the "new boardwalk," remains.

There is no road system connecting Seldovia to other communities, so all travel to town is by airplane or boat, and Cook Inlet's tides at Seldovia once rose or fell 26 feet every six hours.

Seldovia's past industries included fox farming, berry picking, and commercial fishing, including king crab fishing, along with logging and mining, and today charter boats carry sport fishermen to the fishing grounds of Kachemak Bay.

The Susan B. English Grade K-12 School opened on August 30, 1972, and its girls' volleyball team won the 2002 state championship while its boys' basketball team won the 1A state championship in 2015.