Tabynsky

The Tabyn country lies near the Belaya River and its salty tributaries in the southern Urals. Late in the sixteenth century Russians built the Tabyn stockade in this region, where salt springs supplied brine for boiling. The new fortifications on the Belaya and elsewhere were contested by the Nogai ruler Urus, who objected to their construction in lands his people had used. A settlement later grew on Bashkir land around the Bogoyavlensky copper works, established in 1752; it was known as Bogoyavlenskoye.