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Siberia in 1636 The 17th-century tower of Yakutsk fort. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Russian people who migrated into Siberia were hunters, and those who had escaped from Central Russia: fugitive peasants in search for life free of serfdom, fugitive convicts, and Old Believers. The new settlements of Russian people and the existing local ...
1587 - Tobolsk was founded on the Irtysh, which later became the "Capital of Siberia" 1590 - the first decree on the resettlement of the Russian population in Siberia (35 "arable people" from Solvychegodsk district "with their wives and children and with all the estate" were sent to settle in Siberia) 1593 - Berezov founded
New forts were built along and east of Volga (Samara, Saratov, Tsaritsyn, and Ufa). The conquest of Siberia began in 1582. To the south, forts were built along the main Tatar raiding trail at Elets (1592:350s,50e), Voronezh (1586:450s,100e), Belgorod (1593:575s,75w), and Stary Oskol (1593:490s). These were used as refuges for peasants and ...
The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod (unveiled on 8 September 1862). The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [1] [2] The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in the year 862, ruled by Varangians.
The formal end to Tatar rule over Russia was the defeat of the Tatars at the Great Stand on the Ugra River in 1480. Ivan III (r. 1462–1505) and Vasili III (r. 1505–1533) had consolidated the centralized Russian state following the annexations of the Novgorod Republic in 1478, Tver in 1485, the Pskov Republic in 1510, Volokolamsk in 1513, Ryazan in 1521, and Novgorod-Seversk in 1522.
The practice of hunting animals solely for fur began after the Russians came to Siberia. [1] Sable quickly became the most valuable and popular type of Siberian fur, and still maintains the distinction to this day. The Siberian fur trade began in the sixteenth century, peaked in the seventeenth century, and continues to the present day. [2]
The road to Asia was opened, and in 1581 Yermak Timofeyevich crossed the Ural Mountains with a band of adventurers, defeated the Siberian Khanate and started the Russian conquest of Siberia. [4] The rapid exploration of the vast territories of Siberia was led primarily by Cossacks and Pomors hunting for valuable furs, spices and ivory.
Farewell to Europe, by Aleksander Sochaczewski.. A sybirak (Polish:, plural: sybiracy) is a person resettled to Siberia. [1] Like its Russian counterpart sibiryák, the word can refer to any dweller of Siberia, but it more specifically refers to Poles imprisoned or exiled to Siberia [2] [need quotation to verify] or even to those sent to the Russian Arctic or to Kazakhstan [3] in the 1940s ...