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What is a yasak?

What is a yasak? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) An in-kind tribute in Imperial Russia exacted from the indigenous peoples of Siberia, usually in fur.
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He is first heard of around 1682 collecting Yasak on the Aldan River and one of the Uda Rivers.
The Russians here had heard reports of a 'Kamchatka River' to the south and were already collecting yasak on the headwaters of the rivers that flow south toward Kamchatka.
In 1590 Kuchum raided the Tatars around Tobolsk who were paying yasak to the Russians.

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