THE TURKIC POPULATION OF KUZNETSK DISTRICT ON THE MAPS FROM THE ATLASES OF S. U. REMEZOV

Abstract

The article presents a brief history of the formation of cartographic sources which make the atlases of the Tobolsk cartographer S. U. Remezov, as well as the circumstances of the creation of the atlases themselves. Based on the analysis of three atlases and General maps ofSiberiakept in the Hermitage collection, the authors define the habitats of the peoples of the Kuznetsk district, which paid tribute to the Russian Tsar, and the neighboring Turkic peoples, who were not Russian tributaries. The geographic mapping of yasak townships and resettlement of tax-paying people in the middlebasinofUpper Obare discussed here in detail. The article features the geography of the tributaries in theUpper Obregion. The authors give a complex picture of the distribution of influences between two neighboring states –Russiaand Oyratia. The results of the study are reflected on a specially compiled historical map. The map includes a complete list of the Turkic and Mongolian peoples of theUpper Ob, whose habitats are marked on the drawings created or copied by Semyon Remezov in late XVII – early XVIII centuries.