Kortuz

Kortuz was established in the early nineteenth century by migrants from southern Russia, in the wooded margins of the Minusinsk basin. Its beginnings belonged to a phase of settlement different from that of the older Russian communities along the Yenisei. A regional historical study contrasts Kortuz with nearby Maly Khabyk: the latter was inhabited largely by descendants of tribute-paying Koibal people, while Kortuz represented a newer migrant settlement.

Both stood in the subtaiga zone, where settlement followed the wooded upper valleys rather than the more open forest-steppe. The comparison preserves an important distinction within southern Siberia's population history. Neighbouring villages could have very different origins, reflecting migration from European Russia alongside the continued presence and changing status of Indigenous communities.