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1600-1800 The Yukaghir population was considerably reduced in the 17th-19th centuries owing to epidemics, internecine warfare and the colonization policy of the tsarist government

• 1600-1700 When the Russians did not obtain the demanded amount of yasak from the natives, the Governor of Yakutsk, Piotr Golovin, who was a Cossack, used meat hooks to hang the native men. In the Lena basin, 70% of the Yakut population died within 40 years, and rape and enslavement were used against native women and children in order to force the natives to pay the Yasak

• 1628-1746 To the dismay of the Russian conquerors in Nenets people lands, there were constant uprisings, in which the Nenets also participated. Caravans of tax collectors were raided and Russian strongholds attacked. In a period of one hundred years the Pustozersk stronghold in northeastern Europe suffered six major attacks

• 1652-1689 War with China Qing Empire

• 1683-1699 Great Turkish War

• 1686-1700 War with Ottoman Empire

• War with Khanate of Kazan

• The invasion of Khalkha by Galdan Boshogtu Khan in 1688 stopped Khalkha resistance to the Cossack advance and sent more Mongol refugees fleeing into Russian control.

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