Origins
A fort on the Angara
Maxim Perfilyev’s expedition establishes Bratsk Ostrog, a fortified outpost of Russian expansion along the Angara.
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1630s
A point on the Angara
Selected events and details from published sources. A curated selection, rather than an exhaustive chronicle.
Origins
The fort meets resistance
The early forts become sites of conflict with local Buryat groups. Reconstructions differ on destruction and rebuilding dates; this was not an uninhabited wilderness.
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An alternative relocation chronology
A. A. Pavlov identifies a new fort on the right bank of the Oka in 1636. This scholarly reconstruction must not be silently merged with the commonly cited 1648 relocation.
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