Russian conquest of Siberia
Military conquest during 1580–1778 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Russian conquest of Siberia took place during 1580–1778, when the Khanate of Sibir became a loose political structure of vassalages that were being undermined by the activities of Russian explorers. Although outnumbered, the Russians pressured the various family-based tribes into changing their loyalties and establishing distant forts from which they conducted raids. It is traditionally considered that Yermak Timofeyevich's campaign against the Siberian Khanate began in 1580. The annexation of Siberia and the Far East to Russia was resisted by local residents and took place against the backdrop of fierce battles between the Indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Russian Cossacks, who often committed atrocities against Indigenous Siberians.[1]
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Part of the territorial evolution of Russia | |||||||||
Yermak's Conquest of Siberia, a painting by Vasily Surikov | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Tsardom of Russia Don Cossacks Allied Indigenous Siberians |
Khanate of Sibir (until 1598) Daurs Bashkirs Yakuts Koryaks Chukchis Buryats China (1652–1689) | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Yermak † Andrey Voyeykov Pyotr Beketov Ivan Moskvitin Yerofey Khabarov Vassili Poyarkov Vladimir Atlasov Dmitry Pavlutsky † |
Kuchum Khan Daur prince Guigudar |