A Town Born

In 1632 in the mouth of the Ishym river a burg was built for protection of local people against the khan Kuchum. That was the first fortress from which development of the Ishym by the Russians got started. At present Ust-Ishym settlement is located here.

In 1687 near the Ishym burg the Korkin sloboda was built. Construction works were supervised by Piotr Onofriev, a Tobolsk nobleman. In 1720 Peter I introduced an administrative territorial division by districts. The Korkin sloboda became the district center. In 1760 exiled serfs were transported to the Korkina sloboda, who were its first inhabitants. By the middle of the XVIIIthe century annexation of prosperous agricultural lands in the vicinities of Ishym had been completed by the Russians. In 1782 under the decree of Ekaterina II the Korkina sloboda was given the status of a town later named Ishym.