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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

• 1683-1699 Great Turkish War

• 1686-1700 War with Ottoman Empire

• Russian Cossacks imposed taxes on the Alyutors, who would show armed resistance in the next few years.

• 1697-1698 The campaign against Itelmens and Koryaks people was led by V. Atlasov, who began immediately with the help of Cossacks and Yukaghirs to collect tributes

• Kamchatka today is European in demographics and culture with only 2.5% of it being native, around 10,000 from a previous number of 150,000, due to the mass slaughters by the Cossacks after its annexation in 1697 of the Itelmen and Koryaks throughout the first decades of Russian rule.[17] The genocide by the Russian Cossacks devastated the native peoples of Kamchatka and exterminated much of their population

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