Khanty
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500 CE to 2215 CE
The Khanty (in older literature: Ostyaks) are an indigenous people calling themselves Khanti, Khande, Kantek (Khanty), living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as "Yugra" in Russia, together with the Mansi.
In the autonomous okrug, the Khanty and Mansi languages are given co-official status with Russian.
In the 2010 Census, 30,943 persons identified themselves as Khanty.
Of those, 26,694 were resident in Tyumen Oblast, of which 17,128 were living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug and 8,760—in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
873 were residents of neighboring Tomsk Oblast, and 88 lived in the Komi Republic.
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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 ...
...Surgut in 1594.
Russia is able to annex Siberia as a result of Yermak's expedition.
...the founding of the cities of Pelym and ...
...Beryozovo in 1592 and ...