The first half of the XVIIth century The second half of the XVIIth century The first half of the XVIIIth century The second half of the XVIIIth century The first half of the XIXth century The second half of the XIXth century Beginning of the XXth century The campaign of the Tarski voivode Andrey Voeykov against siberian Khan Kuchum

The annexation of the Western Siberia to the Russian Federation began in the second half of the XVIth century. The first information about the population ih the Upper Ob dates back to the end of the XVIth century. It is connected with the persue of siberian Khan Kuchum in summer 1598 by the russian service troops with Andrey Voeykov at their head. The compaign took place in the August 1598. The Voeykov's detachment caught him on the left bank. The battle took place not far from the little river Irmen, that led to the complite defeat of Kuchum. His troops were beaten, relatives were taken prisoners. Khan himself could manage the same fate by getting to the right bank of the Ob. The persecutors rushed there, but they couldn't find the escapee. . Voeykov reported about the results of the compaign, that he stopped chasing Khuchum and came back to Tara, according to some evidence given by Ob-side inhabitans, that the kalmik troop of 5000 people, that was at that time qiute military force, settled at the distance of approximately 150 km, where the battle took place. Tomsk stockaded town (the present-day city Tomsk) was started in 1604in the Lower Tom reaches, and in the Upper Tom reaches in 1618 Kuznetsk stockaded town (the present-day city Novokuznetsk) was started. Although all tries of the Russians to move forward to the South, to the Upper Ob, were hampered by Turcik-speaking and Mongolian-speaking cattle-breeders with teleuth and dgungar grand princes at theuir head, who lived in the Ob-side. The Southern border of Russia in the Ob-side, settled de-facto in 1598 along the Irmen, was not changed until the beginning of the XVIIIth century.