According to Russian historian Hadi Atlasi,
Taibugha founded the settlement which was then named Chinkidin in honor of
Genghis Khan. The settlement later evolved into Chimgi-Tura. It was a capital of the
Khanate of Sibir until the early 16th century, when its ruler Khan Muhammad decided not to remain at Chimgi-Tura, and chose a new capital named
Qashliq located on the
Irtysh. After the
Cossack ataman Yermak Timofeyevich conquered the Siberian Khanate in the 1580s, the city of Chimgi-Tura was abandoned or burned. In 1586, the Russian fort
Tyumen was built nearby. Modern Tyumen, one of the centres of the Russian oil industry, covers the site where Chimgi-Tura used to stand. ==References==