Throughout September 1582, the Khan gathered his forces for a defence of Qashliq. On 29 June, the Cossack forces were attacked by the Tatars but again repelled them. After a three-day battle on the banks of the river Irtysh, Yermak was victorious against a combined force of Küçüm Khan and six allied Tatar princes. At this time, they also captured a tax collector of Küçüm.įollowing a series of Tatar raids in retaliation against the Russian advance, Yermak's forces prepared for a campaign to take Qashliq, the Siberian capital. Throughout 1581, this force traversed the territory known as Yugra and subdued Vogul and Ostyak towns. They were accompanied by 300 Lithuanian and German slave laborers, whom the Stroganovs had purchased from the tsar. The Russian conquest of Siberia began in July 1580 when some 540 Cossacks under Yermak Timofeyevich invaded the territory of the Voguls, subjects to Küçüm, the Khan of Siberia. See also: Conquest of the Khanate of Sibir
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