The legendary ataman Yermak Timofeyevich had gone…

The legendary ataman Yermak Timofeyevich had gone on an expedition to conquer Siberia during the reign of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia.

After defeating Khan Kuchum in the fall of 1582 and occupying Isker, the capital of the Siberian Khanate, Yermak sent a Cossack detachment down the Irtysh in the winter of 1583.

The detachment led by Bogdan Bryazga (according to other sources, the Cossack chieftain Nikita Pan) had passed through the lands of the Konda-Pelym Voguls and reached the walls of the town of Samarovo.

The Ostyaks, taken by surprise by the Cossack attack, had surrendered.

Shortly after Yermak's death, Cossacks led by voevoda (army commander) Ivan Mansurov had in autumn 1585 founded the first Russian fortified town in Siberia, Obskoy, at the mouth of the Irtysh river on the right bank of the Ob river.

The Mansi and Khanty lands thus became part of the Russian state, finally secured by ...