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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 guide
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
- 1744 CEBorn
Qing - 1771Torghut Migration
Took partage 27In 1771 Ubashi led a Kalmyk-Torghut migration from the Volga toward the Qing frontier; the deadly movement was later incorporated into competing national narratives.- Torghut Return and Settlement in Ejinac. 1698In the Qing period, Torghut groups returned in stages and were settled in Ejina and other regions, leaving a continuing pastoral cultural tradition.
- Torghut Migration to the Qing NorthwestIn 1771 Ubashi led the Kalmyk-Torghut migration from the Volga region into the Qing northwest; this record avoids presenting one later national narrative as the event's sole meaning.
- Torghuts Settle at BayinbulukAfter the Torghut return in 1771, the Qing court divided and resettled the communities, including a group in today's Hejing and Bayinbuluk region.
- Torghut Return and Settlement in Ejina
- 1774 CEDied
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