Historical Atlas of California The colony included a port at Bodega Bay called Port Rumyantsev ( ), a sealing station on the Farallon Islands 18 miles out to sea from San Francisco, and by 1830 three small farming communities called "ranchos" ( ): Chernykh ( , Rancho Egora Chernykh) near present-day Graton, Khlebnikov ( , Rancho Vasiliya Khlebnikova) a mile north of the present day town of Bodega in the Salmon Creek valley, and Kostromitinov ( , Rancho Petra Kostromitinova) on the Russian River.