FASCINATION ABOUT UFA

For this, the Bashkirs had been obliged to pay yasak (tribute) (in the beginning with furs and honey, later on with funds). In 1573, the Bashkirs located it inconvenient to pay yasak in Kazan and asked the Russian tsar to build a city for them on their own land and mail troops to protect versus raids of nomads.In 1586, Ufa acquired the standing of