Kolpashevo

Kolpashevo stands on the right bank of the Ob, near the mouth of the Ket, in the forested lowlands of western Siberia. The settlement began as a small village in the seventeenth century, associated with the Kolpashnikov family of Russian servicemen. The Ob and Ket formed part of the water route eastward across Siberia; Russian embassies bound for China and the Kamchatka expeditions used that route during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.