Jerofiej Chabarow

Jericho Chabarov (Russian: Ерофей Павлович Хабаров, Ерофей Павлович Хабаров-Святитский (born ca. 1603 in the Great Ustiug district, died in 1671) - Russian traveler and military commander, conqueror of the land of Amur.

He came from a peasant family. In Siberia he was initially involved in trade. In 1628-1630, he traveled to the fur-lined fur market on the peninsula of Tajmah and Mangazei. From 1632 he bought furs in the Upper Lena basin, and in 1639 discovered bricks in the present town of Ust'-Kut and built salt baths there. In 1641 he built a mill at the mouth of the river Kirenga. Shortly thereafter, the tsarist governor Peter Gołowin began demanding that Chabarov get higher rents for the mill, and when Khabarov could not pay them, he confiscated all the merchants' wealth and imprisoned himself in Jakkug prison where he sat until 1645. After taking over by the new governor of Yakutsk was Dmitri Francbek in 1648 Chabarov was given the authority of the authorities to organize a military expedition over the Amur, to obtain furs, to pay tribute to the local population and to occupy these lands for Russia. Khabarov headed the 100 Cossacks in 1649 and in 1653 operated in the Amur region, splitting the local population, such as the Daurs, and establishing numerous small forts. Albazino. In the meantime, in 1650 he returned to Yakutsk to gather new volunteers. Khabarov's actions disturbed China, who in 1652 sent an army to expel the Russians from Amur. The Chinese army gradually completed the task. Previously, Khabarov left for Moscow in 1655, where he was awarded the nobility (son of a son-in-law) and the authority of the Upper Lena. Amur was no longer involved in combat operations.

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