Kazym

Kazym was the name of a Khanty territorial association in the basin of the river of the same name, a tributary of the Ob. Its fortified settlements and princely families belonged to the political world of western Siberia, where ties to the Siberian khanate and demands from Moscow overlapped. In 1593 Russian forces captured Kazym-vosh, and the territory became a tribute-paying volost administered through Berezovo.

Local princes, also called murzas, continued to hold positions within the new arrangement. Conquest nevertheless did not end resistance: in 1607 Bogdan, son of Prince Sengep, joined an uprising and was defeated and executed. Tribute and trade also connected the Kazym Khanty with neighbouring Forest Nenets. Later Russian fortified construction occupied this landscape. The Kazym, or Yuilsk, stockade preserved features of eighteenth-century west Siberian wooden defence, including watchtowers and a barrack building. Kazym's history thus joined indigenous centres of authority to imperial tribute collection and a changing fortified frontier.