Tobolsk

Tobolsk is a town in Tyumen Oblast, Russia, placed on the confluence of the Tobol and Irtysh Rivers. Founded in 1590, Tobolsk is the second oldest Russian settlement east of the Ural Mountains in Asian Russia, and is a historical capital of the Siberia vicinity. In 1580, a group of Yermak Timofeyevich's Cossacks initiated the Russian conquest of Siberia, pushing eastwards on behalf of the Tsardom of Russia. They attacked the Vogul Mansi and Ostyak peoples in Yugra, and had additionally captured a tax collector of Kuchum Khan, the king of the huge Tatar Khanate of Sibir, the maximum effective pressure in the western Siberia area at the jap aspect of the Ural Mountains.

At the time the Voguls and Ostyaks had been topics of Kuchum, and in response retaliation assaults were achieved towards the Cossacks via the Tatars. After a yr of Tatar attacks, Yermak prepared for the conquest of the Khanate of Sibir and a campaign to take the Khanate's capital city, Qashliq. The Cossacks conquered the city on 26 October 1582, sending Kuchum into retreat. Despite the conquest, Kuchum had regrouped his final forces and formed a brand new army, launching a surprise attack on 6 August 1584, killing Yermak. This ended in a series of battles over Qashliq, passing between Tatar and Cossack manage, with the city being deserted in 1588. Kuchum become ultimately defeated with the aid of the Cossacks in 1598 at the Battle of Urmin near the River Ob, ending the Khanate of Sibir, and organising Russian manipulate over the western Siberia region.