Turkic groups in the Kuchumovichi camping grounds in the South Trans-Urals in the 1600-s

After Kuchum's death his eldest son, Ali, was appointed as the new Siberian Khan in approximately 1601. Under such conditions Turkic yasak volosts start to develop in the South South Trans-Urals the population of which becomes a part of Moskovia on the ground of shert in 1600-1603. Despite this process Ali and his brothers preserved the power over a part of the Southern forest-steppe and steppe territory of the Siberian Khanate. They kept a traditional nomadic lifestyle in that territory together with their courts which included atalyks, abyzes, princes, Mirzas, and possibly scribes and interpreters. Also present were representatives of Turkic tribes of South Trans-Urals, such as synryans, tabyns and myakotins who formed parts of militia troops. Nogai clans of Urusovy and Altyulovy (Shi-khmamevichi) also stood in that territory. Urusovy leaders could act as beklyaribeks. All these Turks supported Kuchumovichi in their struggle with the Russian power. Khan Ali and his brother Azim together with those Turks harassed the volosts of Tyumen and Ufa counties from 1601 to 1607. Kuchumovichi territories were used by Urusovy to accumulate forces for steppe wars, for example, against other Nogai clans amid disarray in the Horde. In 1601 their leader Djan Arslan was taken captive and his brothers occurred to be hostages in Tyumen and Tobolsk. Afetr Ali's and his brother Azim's overthrow in 1607 local Turkic tribes went to the yasak volosts in the Southern Trans-Urals and Priisetie. Soon after Ali was taken captive, Ishim who had the Kalmyks' backing became the Khan. By 1610, the Kalmyks forced Nogai out from the South Trans-Urals under the command of Altyuly. The latter in the considered years acted separately from the local dynasts and collected yasak from the Southern Trans-Urals volosts. These facts turned the situation around, changed the Kuchumovichi camping ground image and severed their ties with Turkic tribes. The Kalmyks (Oirats) constituted a danger not only for the Russian power but also for the Turkic tribes from the South Trans-Urals. They happened to be on the very border with the Russian state and often became at risk of raids which encouraged their loyalty towards Russian voivodes. Only in the 1620-s the coalition of several tribes and Kuchum's descendants would regain but the reasons and the situation of that time period would be absolutely different from the first decade of the XVII century.

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