Soviet historiography of the settlement of Siberia by Russians during the feudal period has rich traditions, and the interest of specialists in this topic does not fade, since the degree of its study depends on the solution of many other important issues of Russian medieval studies, in particular, the understanding of the Siberian version of the system of "state feudalism". Below, an attempt is made to review the current state of study of the problem, to summarize the results of its research over the past five years .1The previously formulated 2 statement on the three main stages of Russian settlement in Siberia during the feudal era remains valid, but their previous dating (the first stage: the end of the XVI-beginning of the XVIII century, the second: the 20 - 80s of the XVIII century, and the third: from the end of the 1780s) does not fully satisfy historians. Thus, A.D. Kolesnikov considers the fundamental boundary in the development of the region not the 20s of the XVIII century, but the end of the XVII century. Since that time, in his opinion, Siberia "was no longer a continuous newly populated area. It identifies old-populated areas as areas where immigrants leave, and areas where peasants settle down." The main increase in the Russian population of Siberia since the end of the 17th century, according to the author (new data 1 For a review of the previous literature on this issue, see: Minenko N. A. Historiography of Siberia (the Period of Feudalism). Novosibirsk. 1978. 2 See Boyarshinova 3. Ya. Settlement of Siberia by Russians in the XVI-first half of the XIX century. In: Results and tasks of studying the history of Siberia in the pre-Soviet period. Novosibirsk. 1971. page 114 in support of his conclusion, however, he does not cite), "it was due to natural growth" 3 . It is significant that in the generalizing work on the history of the Siberian peasantry, the first quarter of the XVIII century is actually referred to the second stage of the development of ... Read more