A Town born

Yalutorovskaya sloboda was founded in 1659 on the place of the tartar village Yavlutor. The founders of the burg are considered ploughmen Petrushka Ulyanov and Elesska Gilev, who were sent there under the order of the Tyumen voivoda Fedor Verigin. The Cossacks were the first
Residents to the Yalutorovsk burg, but since there was plenty of fertile land around soon it became inhabited by migrants and runaway serfs from the European part of Russia. Voivodes supervising over the sloboda would encourage the migrants, and would provide them with many privileges.

In 1722 Yaluturovsk burg became a center of the Yalutorovsk district, and incorporated several villages around it. After a clerical reform of the patriarch Nikon a lot of old-believers escaped to Siberia and settled around Yalutorovsk. In 1782 under the decree of Ekaterina II Yalutorovsk sloboda was given the status of a town. At that time a symbol of the town was established, a picture of ‘a mill weal in a blue field’ symbolizing that there were a lot of mills there.