Tyumen

Region: Eastern Europe & Russia · Coordinates: 57.152, 65.527 · 4 events

Events

YearSourceAccount
AD 1580Remezov Siberian ChronicleOn August 1 Ermak captured Tyumen (Chingitura), killed the tsar Chingi, and spent the winter there.
AD 1580Remezov Siberian ChronicleErmak seized Kuchum's envoy Kutugai at Tarkhan, treated him handsomely, showed off his skill with the matchlock arquebus, and sent him back to frighten Kuchum.
AD 1581Remezov Siberian ChronicleOn May 9 Ermak went down the Tura from Tyumen, fought six princes at its mouth, won with 1,060 men, and buried the spoils at the mouth.
AD 1585Remezov Siberian ChronicleOn July 29 Voevodas Sukin, Myasnoy and Chorkov, with 300 men, built the first Siberian church of the Savior at Tyumen (old Chingi) and collected yasak across the Tura and Tobol region.
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