Kataysky

Kataysky refers to the fortified settlement that became Kataysk, near the junction of the Katayka and Iset rivers east of the Urals. The first stockade is conventionally dated to 1655 and associated with Pankraty Perkhurov. Repeated destruction led to rebuilding: the earlier sites lay close to dense pine woods, while the third fort occupied a higher promontory protected by the river, a ravine and ditches.

Its defenses enclosed more than a garrison. A surviving description lists four gate towers, an Epiphany church, a judicial office, a powder cellar and three storehouses. By 1695 the settlement included fifty-eight Cossack households and 269 peasant households. Kataysk also stood on the road between Moscow and Tobolsk. Goods were sold locally or forwarded toward the Irbit fair and other Siberian settlements. Its history therefore combines a defended frontier post with administration, food storage and commercial movement along a major overland route.