Pages: 353-365

The Irtysh area near Tara city in the 17th—18th centuries became the arena for the frequent military conflicts between the Russian population, who began developing this territory with construction of the city of Tara in 1594, and the nomadic people of the South of Western Siberia. This tense situation demanded a good provision of weapons and ammunition for the Tara garrison and local recruits from the neighboring villages. The weapons and ammunition were supplied from the center of the Moscow state. Archaeological research of the city of Tara and two rural sites yielded a collection of arms — fragments of firearms and tools for their maintenance, and ammunition — sets of bullets for different types of weapons and tools for their manufacturing. The analysis of this collection allowed us to assume that the garrisons, which regularly participated in military collisions, used advanced types of weapons. Ammunitions were regularly supplied from the center, but also produced locally.

Keywords: Western Siberia, 17th—18th centuries, Tara, archaeology of Russians, arms, ammunition

Information about authors:

Larisa Tataurova (Omsk, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Omsk Laboratory of Archeology, Ethnography and Museology, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Marx Ave., 15, Omsk, 644023, Russian Federation; National Research Tomsk State University. Lenin Ave., 36, Tomsk, 634050, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
Sergey Tataurov (Omsk, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Omsk Laboratory of Archeology, Ethnography and Museology, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Marx Ave., 15, Omsk, 644023, Russian Federation; National Research Tomsk State University. Lenin Ave., 36, Tomsk, 634050, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]