The village that was once called Attu was located in Chichagof Harbor. (Zoe Sobel/KUCB)

The only survivor of Attu, Gregory Golodoff, died earlier in the month at the age of 84.

Golodoff was a small kid in the year 1942, when Japanese Imperial Army invaded his village in the Aleutians’ western region. It was the Battle of Attu was the final major battle in the Aleutian Islands campaign of World War II.

The entire forty-two Attuans residents of the community were sent into Japan as prisoners and included Golodoff. The majority of them survived the ordeal.

Attu was abandoned following the war and a majority of the returned Attuans moved to Atka around 500 miles away from where they had come from.

Gregory Golodoff and his sister, Elizabeth Golodoff Kudrin , taken in the vicinity of Atka Island, sometime between 1946 and 1947. (Courtesy of National Park Service, University Of Washington Press and Ethel Ross Oliver)

Golodoff was a major part of his time in Atka. It was his tribal presidency during the 1980s, when Atka experienced significant growth including the development of a new subdivision as well as the construction of a new school.

The sister of his, Elizabeth Kudrin, died earlier in the year. They were the two last living individuals who were born in Attu.

Gregory Golodoff was living in Anchorage with his wife when he died on the 17th of November. 17. The funeral ceremony will be held in the St. Innocent Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Anchorage on the Monday of November. 27.