History Of The Irtysh River

A series of Mongolia and Turkic peoples occupied the river for centuries. In the ages 15 and 16, the middle and lower river flows into the Irtysh Tatar khanate of Sibir, which beat the Russians in the 1580s. In the 17th century, the Khanate Zunghar formed by the people of Mongolia Oirat became Russia's southern neighbor, and controlled the upper Irtysh. The Russians founded the city of Omsk in 1716 in 1718 in Semipalatinsk, Ust-Kamenogorsk in 1720, and Petropavlovsk in 1752.

Chinese Qing Empire State Zunghar conquered in the 1750s. The border between the Russian and Qing empires (the current border between Russia and Kazakhstan and Mongolia to the north and China in the South) was settled in the early 19th century.

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