History of Siberia from stone age to Russian conquest

In the first part of the video I presented the Geography of Siberia, which is characterised by a great deal of variety in climate, vegetation, and landscape, and how human habitation was influenced by this aspect. The second part is about the finds from the Lower and Upper Palaeolithic, to the cultures of the bronze and iron age. I described the most important of these cultures: Andronovo culture in Western Siberia, Xiongnu in Southern Siberia, Irmen culture in Ob river valley.

In the damper steppes to the north, the sedentary pastoralist culture of the late Bronze Age developed under the influence of the material culture of the nomads. In the Central Asian steppes, Turkic groups become detectable sometime in the 5th century. While the tribes around Lake Baikal were Mongol-speaking, those to the west spoke Turkic, Samoyedic, or Yeniseian languages. By 1206, Genghis Khan had conquered all Mongol and Turkic tribes in Mongolia and southern Siberia. Western Siberia came under the Golden Horde. The descendants of Orda Khan, the eldest son of Jochi, directly ruled the area. The next clear break in the history of Siberia is the Russian expansion into the east which began in the late 15th century and only concluded in the 19th century. This process marks the beginning of modernity in Siberia.

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Voice & editing: Nicolae Bondar (myself)

Music: Pachabelly, by Huma-Huma, downloaded from YouTube Audio Library

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[christophmahler]

Quite the gem.

Requires a _continuation_, featuring the fragmentation of the Mongol Empire into Western 'Gelug' Oryats and Eastern 'Russianized' Buryats, Northern 'Nyingma' Khalkhas and the 'Japanized' Khorchin's, the migration of the Kalmyks into imperial Russia (birthplace of LENIN), the struggle between the British Empire and the Manchu-dynasty for Tibet and arguably culminating in the failed campaign of Roman Ungern-Sternberg against the Bolsheviks for the restoration of the European monarchy.

Lots of stories to tell.

[dannybeads]

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[SakhaYkt]

The history of Siberia and Central Asia is 100 times richer than that of Europe. When in Central Asia and Siberia people were already processing iron and came up with a complex bow, in Europe people were still running around in skins and with clubs.

[LattzGz]

Wow I was looking for this I am lucky it was posted

[egor.kuznetsov]

Nice documentary, I’m from Irkutsk near Baikal

[daltonmiller]

This is a really good video. As a history nerd, thumbs up from me, everything is correct!

However, I searched for a video on Siberian history because I was looking for a more collective compilation on the history of how Turkic and Tungusic peoples came to inhabit the far north.
It's clear that they did not originally live there. The Paleosiberians clearly once inhabited the whole region but have since been pushed out or assimilated into the invasive nomadic peoples of the south. I was just curious when and why the Turkic and Tungusic peoples started to migrate into Siberia.

[andyspendlove]

Fantastic video! Fascinating stuff. I hope you make more like this!

[Jasmin.M-hzty]

Do you know any other RUSSIAN HISTORY YOUTUBE CHANNEL, beside this one? Please answer to me, becouse i have intresting things about slavic history, that i want to share.

[bigsmiler]

@2:16 this says, "Some remains are around THIRTY-FIVE thousand years old..." but the numbers shown on the video are "~25, 000 years old". This information is important, and I don't know what to believe,
-- This nicely shows circles or coloring on the maps to clarify what is being taught. That is Great, however, not always. There are many cases of us seeing all of Asia, but we don't know what region the narrator is talking about. All considered, this whole video is GREAT compared to most of the more famous YouTube channels. "History with Kayleigh" is largely nothing more than Kayleigh talking and we see NOTHING Except a video of her. MANY other channels have a narrator chattering away and the images show absolutely Nothing related to the topic. I'm saying "History Class" has great potential.

[randteprelt]

Very good information about Russia I didn't know - thanks 👍😀❤👏💯

[graceli]

There must be a reason why the Afanasevo people couldn't expand further east in 800 years, and couldn't do so even after being pressed by Andronovo people from the west. The subjective reason might be, they, the low land settler, didn't know how to settle in a high land. The objective reason might be, they were blocked by another group of people. And there must be a reason why those people mainly to the east of Minusinsk basin (Yenisei river) were not as well known as Afanasevo and Andronovo. The objective reason might be that, archaeologists are now familiar with how to find archaeologic sites on the sparsely settled steppe, but not yet familiar with how to find a site in the sparsely settled forest or high land. The subjective reason might be that, even if those sites and prehistoric culture were found, since the residents were unlikely Europenoid, they're not getting attention and/or funding for further investigation. There are many named cultures eastern to Afanasevo, before it, at the same time, and after it, but none of them appeared noticeably here (not even as noticeable as the less famous Europenoid cultures near Ural). Not to blame the author who just took whatever available in European languages, which had no problem other than sometimes ignoring 'others', which may partially caused by Russians controlling Siberia, not Mongolians, or Manchurians/Koreans/Yakuts etc., and in the past, only the Europenoid had the funding.

[frontendprotogy]

can you make same about Caucasus, here we had history dating to 2500 BC.

[aradhyashahi]

Its nice but for some people is a totally perfect atmosphere for sleeping

[ChristopherTanne-sepz]

Indoeuropeans ruled this places tousend of years before hunnic

[immortal]

good video. I randomly thought "wtf is siberia anyway" and searched for this.

[ruggedtechie]

Its written all over the face of the inhabitants

[Misserbi]

I watched half the video then stopped. Very informative. It made me think about Russia's use of it. How it served as a place where you were forced to work in labor camps and were kept there against your will. I imagine this reputation keeps many Russians as far away as possible. As for other parts of Russia affected by this land holding -- is it possible it is also used to transfer perceived instabilities and hostilities away from more populated tourist areas? That means it is a geo-political tool that also pursues economic gains. That is how I read the history of this place over the last century. Otherwise, the natural beauty should disway the feeling that this is a horrible place with an extremely disturbing past.