AN UNBIASED VIEW OF UFA

For this, the Bashkirs were being obliged to pay yasak (tribute) (at the outset with furs and honey, later with revenue). In 1573, the Bashkirs identified it inconvenient to pay for yasak in Kazan and requested the Russian tsar to make a town for them on their land and mail troops to defend towards raids of nomads.Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors