![]() Ninety percent of the Kamchadals and half of the Vogules were killed from the 18th to 19th centuries. In addition to committing genocide, the Cossacks also devastated the wildlife by slaughtering massive numbers of animals for fur. The genocide by the Russian Cossacks devastated the native peoples of Kamchatka and exterminated much of their population. After its annexation by Russia in 1697, around 100,000 of 150,000 Itelmen and Koryaks died due to infectious diseases such as smallpox, mass suicides and the mass slaughters perpetrated by the Cossacks throughout the first decades of Russian rule. After the Russians tried to force the natives to convert to Christianity, different native peoples such as the Koryaks, Chukchis, Itelmens, and Yukaghirs all united to drive the Russians out of their land in the 1740s, culminating in the assault on Nizhnekamchatsk fort in 1746. The Russians launched wars and conducted mass slaughters against the Koryaks in 17–54. However this phase of the war came to an inconclusive end, when the Chukchi forced them to give up by killing Pavlutskiy and decapitating him. The command was that the natives be "totally extirpated" with Pavlutskiy leading again in this war from 1744 to 1747 in which he led to the Cossacks "with the help of Almighty God and to the good fortune of Her Imperial Highness", to slaughter the Chukchi men and enslave their women and children as booty. Ī war against the Chukchis and Koryaks was ordered by Empress Elizabeth in 1742 to totally expel them from their native lands and erase their culture through war. After the Russian defeat in 1729 at Chukchi hands, the Russian commander Major Dmitry Pavlutsky was responsible for the Russian war against the Chukchi and the mass slaughters and enslavement of Chukchi women and children in 1730–31, but his cruelty only made the Chukchis fight more fiercely. The Russian Cossacks faced tougher resistance from the Koryaks, who revolted with bows and guns from 1745 to 1756, and were even forced to give up in their attempts to wipe out the Chukchi in 1729, 1730–31, and 1744–47. During the first uprising the Itelmen were armed with only stone weapons, but in later uprisings they used gunpowder weapons. In Kamchatka, the Itelmens' uprisings against Russian rule in 1706, 1731, and 1741, were crushed. Further information: Russian conquest of Siberia and Siberian minorities in the Soviet era An ethnographic map of 16th-century Siberia, made in the Russian Empire period, between 18
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