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