Russian conquest of Siberia

Russian conquest of Siberia
Part of the territorial evolution of Russia
Yermak's Conquest of Siberia, a painting by Vasily Surikov
Date 1580–1778 (198 years) Location Siberia Result Russian victory Territorial changes Dissolution and annexation of the Sibir Khanate The territory between the Ural Mountains and the Pacific Ocean falls under the control of Russia
Belligerents
Tsardom of Russia (before 1721) Russian Empire (after 1721) Don Cossacks Allied Indigenous Siberians	Khanate of Sibir (until 1598) Daurs Yakuts Koryaks Chukchis Buryats Qing Empire (1652–1689)
Commanders and leaders
Yermak † Andrey Voyeykov Pyotr Beketov Ivan Moskvitin Yerofey Khabarov Vassili Poyarkov Vladimir Atlasov Dmitry Pavlutsky †	Kuchum Khan Daur prince Guigudar

The Russian conquest of Siberia took place during 1581–1778, when the Khanate of Sibir became a loose political structure of vassalages that were being undermined by the activities of Russian explorers. Although outnumbered, the Russians pressured the various family-based tribes into changing their loyalties and establishing distant forts from which they conducted raids. It is traditionally considered that Yermak Timofeyevich's campaign against the Siberian Khanate began in 1581. The annexation of Siberia and the Far East to Russia was resisted by local residents and took place against the backdrop of fierce battles between the indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Russian Cossacks, who often committed atrocities against indigenous Siberians.^{[1][better source needed]} The conquest of the region was a spontaneous event organized by a group of adventurers; it is one of the early European colonial campaigns.^[2]