A. B. MATVEEV, S. F. TATAUROV. SIBERIAN KHANATE: MILITARY AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF HISTORY. Kazan: "Fan" of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, 2012. 260 p. (Biblioteca Tatarica / Series: "Ethnopolitical history of the Tatars") Currently, historians and archaeologists of Siberia pay considerable attention to the problems of the history of statehood, various aspects of culture, including military affairs, the Siberian Tatars in the late Middle Ages and in the early Modern period. Due to the limited information of written historical sources, the main body of which is Russian Siberian chronicles, the main attention is paid to events related to the campaign to Western Siberia of the Cossack detachment led by Ataman Ermak, the subsequent collapse of the Siberian Khanate and the annexation of Siberian lands and peoples to the Russian state. In recent years, archaeological and historical-ethnographic works have been published, which are devoted to the purposeful study of the history of the Siberian Tatars and cultural monuments of this Turkic ethnic group, among which considerable attention is paid to the study of the capital city of Isker [Sobolev, 2008, p. 60-81; Tychinskikh, 2010, p. 5; Zykov, 2010,p. 112-121; Adamov, 2010]. 2010, pp. 94-111]. page 183 Among the Tatar states formed after the collapse of the Golden Horde, one of the largest was the Siberian Khanate, which lasted for about two centuries. It occupied a vast territory, covering the steppes and forest-steppes of Western Siberia from the Ural Mountains to the Altai and Kuznetsk Alatau. The Ugric and Samoyedic principalities of Western Siberia were vassally dependent on the Siberian khans. On the territory of this state there were urban and rural settlements, crafts and trade developed. Trade routes from Central Asia to Southern and Western Siberia and from Eastern Europe to the Trans-Urals passed through the territory of the Khanate. Throughout their existence, the Siberian rulers maintained ... Читать далее