Golovin (formerly Chinik, from Inupiaq: Siŋik or Central Yupik: Cingik; Russian: Головин) is a city in Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.7 square miles (9.6 km2), all of it land.

There also were reported the settlements of Golofnin Bay (population 25) and Golofnin City (village) (population 185) on the 1890[8] and 1900 censuses, but these may have been separate areas outside of the present day Golovin, with the former described as consisting of four small Inuit settlements (Siningmon, Netsekawik, Ukodlint & Chillimiut) on an unspecified location in the bay area.

Golovin was named for Captain Vasily Golovnin of the Russian Navy, who visited Alaska to inspect the workings of the Russian-American Company in 1807–1809, in the Diana, and in 1817–1819, in the Kamchatka, while circumnavigating the world.

Lt. Lavrenty Zagoskin, from the Imperial Russian Navy sent to Alaska to scout locations for trading posts, reported the village as "Ikalikguigmyut" in 1842.

In 1867, the Mission Covenant of Sweden established a church and school south of the current site of Golovin.

Around 1890, John Dexter established a trading post that became the center for swapping prospecting information for the entire Seward Peninsula.

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