CONFOEDERATIO,

RESEARCH DIVISION (CRD).

GAZETTEER OF SETTLEMENTS AND POPULATION HISTORIES OF WESTERN SIBERIA.

Archaeological Sites, Yugra Principalities, and Urban Centres of the Ob-Irtysh Basin and Southern Steppe (6000BC - 1900AD).

7 November 2026 - Aust Kätzchen | austkaeztchen@confoederatio.org

Introduction ​

This gazetteer compiles the geographical coordinates, historical and indigenous names, occupation spans, and benchmark population histories of 193 individual settlements across Western Siberia (the Ob-Irtysh river basin, ~2,40M km²) from 6000BC to 1900AD [1]. Reading directly from siberia_ob_irtysh_steppe_and_yugra_settlements.json in the standard population_Stadester format, the dataset covers prehistoric, Bronze Age, and Iron Age settlements across the Altai region (I-1), the South-West Siberian Steppe and Forest-Steppe (I-2), and the North-West Siberian Taiga, Tundra, and Yugra (I-3), followed by medieval Ob-Ugrian, Selkup, Turkic, and Siberian Tatar fortified centres (gorodki and gorodishcha), and early modern to Imperial Russian towns, ostrogi, factory settlements (zavody), and slobody.

Prehistoric, Bronze Age, and Iron Age settlement populations are estimated from excavated house counts, dwelling floor areas ($4,5{\text{ m}}^2$ per person with a contemporaneity factor of $0,65$ to $0,80$), and geomagnetic settlement plans [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. Medieval Yugra and Siberian Khanate populations combine excavated gorodishche house counts with 17th-century Russian fur-tribute (yasak) registers using B. O. Dolgikh's household multipliers ($4,0$ per adult male payer for Ob-Ugrian and Selkup communities and $4,5$ to $5,0$ for Siberian Tatar yurts) [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. Early modern and 18th- to 19th-century urban and sloboda populations are drawn from 17th-century garrison and household rosters (dozornye and perepisnye knigi), the ten Imperial Poll-Tax Revisions (1719-1858) [26][27][28][29], and the First All-Russian Imperial Census of 1897 [30][31][32].

Prehistoric, Bronze Age, and Iron Age Settlements (6000BC - 500AD) ​

Table 1 lists the 45 Neolithic, Eneolithic, and Bronze Age settlements (6000-700BC), and Table 2 lists the 24 Early Iron Age settlements (600BC - 500AD) compiled in siberia_ob_irtysh_steppe_and_yugra_settlements.json.

Medieval Yugra Principalities and Siberian Khanate Centres (500 - 1650AD) ​

Table 3 presents the 46 medieval Ob-Ugrian, Samoyedic, Selkup, Altai Turkic, and Siberian Tatar fortified settlements and principalities compiled in siberia_ob_irtysh_steppe_and_yugra_settlements.json.

Early Modern and Imperial Towns, Ostrogs, and Slobodas (1586 - 1900AD) ​

Tables 4, 5, and 6 present the 78 Russian administrative towns, fortified ostrogi, agricultural slobody, and mining settlements (zavody) across Tobolsk Governorate, the Irtysh defensive line, Tomsk Governorate, and the Altai region up to the First All-Russian Imperial Census of 1897 and 1900AD.

Sources ​