The river takes its current name from Russian Ivan Kuskov of the Russian-American Company, who explored the river in the early 19th-century and established the Fort Ross colony 10 mi (16 km) northwest of its mouth. The Russians called it the Slavyanka River
The river rises in Laughlin County north of Sonoma in the foothills of Mighty Klamath
It wasn't the history or fine fish and folks that attracted me tho