Draft:Battle of the Barabinsk steppe

The Battle of the Barabinsk steppe - The military clash of the Torguts with Russian troops in the Barabinsk steppe.

Course of hostilities
In 1606, for the first time, the Tatar voivode Sila Gagarin reported the appearance of Dzungarian uluses (Kalmyks) in the county. The Tobolsk, Tyumen and Tarsk voivodes were ordered to provide armed resistance to the Kalmyks and keep them at a certain distance from the Russian borders. In the spring of 1607, an army of Cossacks, Russian hunting people, military and Cossack Tatars marched and was successful. The Kalmyks suffered damage, although not such that they would have been forced to move away from the close proximity of the Russians. In March and June 1607, the governor of Tobolsk, Matvey Mikhailovich Godunov, undertook 2 successful campaigns against the Kuchum princes, who acted together with the Kalmyks. The official border between the Russian and Dzungarian possessions became pp. Om and Kamyshlov. About 1607-1610. on the Om River, two days away from its mouth, a Barabinsky guard (ostrog) was set up from Tobolsk and Tarsk Cossacks, who dressed up there in the weather. In 1610, several Tatars of the Tarsky district sided with the Kalmyks, with whom they, including up to 200 people, raided near the city of Tara, causing great damage to it by robberies and murders.

aftermath
The Torguts devastated the Tarsky district. In 1610, the Kalmyks were asked to extradite defectors, but were refused. In the same year, the Kalmyks seized the salt lakes located next to Tara and did not allow the Cossacks sent from the city to take salt from them.