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Ubashi Khan
Torghut Mongol Khan who led 170,000 of his people on their epic 1771 eastward return journey from the Volga River to China.
Mural of the event “Torghut Migration”, which this person took part in.
The Torghuts moved to the lower Volga in the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century, relations with Russian authority, pressure on pasture, and regional warfare had grown tense; later national histories emphasize different causes for the 1771 movement.
Also known as Khan Ubashi · Ubashi
Ubashi Khan (1744 CE–1774 CE) was the heroic Khan of the Torghuts. Defying Russian imperial control, he guided his entire nomadic nation through a perilous 10,000-li trek back to China in 1771, welcomed by Emperor Qianlong.
Life and times
Dates 1744 CE–1774 CE
- c. 1698Torghut Return and Settlement in Ejina
- 1771Torghut MigrationTook partage 27
- 1771Torghut Migration to the Qing Northwestage 27
- 1771Torghuts Settle at Bayinbulukage 27