ROLE OF APPLICATION OF FIRE-ARM AND ATTRACTING ON MILITARY SERVICE SIBERIAN TATARS IN THE RUSSIAN CONQUEST OF WESTERN SIBERIA IN THE 16th - 17th CENTURIES
The article analyzes the historical data on the use of handguns and artillery of Russian Cossacks in military action against the warriors of the Siberian Khanate and the participation of the Siberian Tatars attracted to the Russian military service, in the borders of the possessions of Moscow Protection in Western Siberia by supporters by Khan Kuchum for XVI-XVII centuries. Contrary to some European and Russian researchers on the eve of the campaign to Siberia Cossack detachment under the command of Ataman Ermak Siberian Tatar Khanate has enough human and material resources, enough combat-ready armed forces and a significant number of fortifications. Siberian Tatar warriors were armed with various kinds of bladed weapons and melee distance and personal protection metal warriors. Some of the Siberian Tatars was somewhat familiar with the action of firearms and artillery, but they have experience of using weapons “fire” battlefield. Go over to the Russian authorities and the involvement of the military detachments of Tatars in the armed struggle with the supporters and the descendants of Khan Kuchum has successfully resist attempts to restore the Siberian Khanate. Military-technical superiority and attraction on their side of the Tatar population were important for the conservation of the Siberian lands in the Russian state, in spite of the difficult situation and broke out in the European part of the country's long-term of Trouble times.