Omsk is the center of the slave trade in the 18th century.

The official history of Russia denies the existence of slavery. Is it really? Or in this case, contemporaries get rid of uncomfortable historical facts?
In Siberia, slaves were called Turkish - yasyrs. In the XVIII on the Irtysh in the vicinity of Omsk for a market they had a special island - the island of Plennikov or Nevolnikov. Later, when slavery disappeared, the island was renamed Zatonsky. And now it is already a peninsula - in the interval between it and the indigenous shore of the Irtysh are located for the wintering of the court.

Who entered the slaves? There are three categories among them. The first was represented by the Dzungars taken prisoner by the Kazakhs, and the Kazakhs taken prisoner by the Dzungars. The second category, the most terrible, according to the present times, is the steppe children, sold by their own parents. And the third - the Siberians - Russians and Tatars of both sexes, taken prisoner by the steppe. Slaves were considered, speaking today's language, an imported commodity and were surrounded by customs duty - 25 kopecks per head. Why the island was taken away for the yasir, it is not necessary to explain separately: it is more difficult to escape.

Trading slaves in the mouth of Omi had some ambiguous position. To hold slaves in Russia was forbidden. But Siberia was not actually Russia, but a distant colony, where, along with government decrees, there were unwritten laws. The attitude of the central government to Siberian slavery was surprisingly inconsistent. For 250 years, since the beginning of the development of Siberia, there has rarely been a ten-year interval, so as not to issue a royal decree, it completely forbade slavery, it partially allows it.

The throwing of the central power was explained by two mutually exclusive circumstances. Ethical norms of Orthodoxy, prohibiting the possession of slaves and the vast territory of Siberia, where in the first two centuries after the conquest there was no one to work. Most of the men who came to Siberia were either adventurers or romantics. As soon as the opportunity arose, they went to hunting artels, bandits or military campaigns. The spaces are huge, and there is no one who wants to engage in agriculture. Therefore, every settled peasant or Cossack owned yasyrs.
There was one more circumstance explaining the survivability of the trade of slaves. The acute shortage of Orthodox brides.

The peasants were sent to Siberia by the thousands, and parties of fifty women from criminal criminals, where a half were guerrillas, occasionally. But in fact a rare Orthodox peasant, living old, died a bean. On whom did the Russians get married? They bought their future wives in the slave market of Omsk or exchanged it for the aborigines.