So, Siberia is a massive area stretching from the Ural mountains to the Sea of Japan. I know the Russians began to conquer it in the late 1500s/early 1600s, I read that the motive for this at the time was the fur trade as oil, gas and other natural stuff had not been discovered yet. I was curious to know what groups did the Russian forces come into contact with, I know that Siberia is very sparsely populated so it is likely that some parts were more a less void of people when the Russians expanded into it.

I remember reading that in some parts Russian influence with basically non-existent until the times of the Soviet Union, I also watched a video that states that some Siberian native tribes did try to fend the Russians off and the hardest ones to conquer was the Chukchi. I also learned in the same video that the Russians would eventually run into the Qing Dynasty who also had an interest of expanding into the region, so did the Russians and the Qing Dynasty battle it out over this region and did the Russians gain more rivals by expanding so far east?