Tales are often told of the 'genocide' of native Americans with the great westward expansion of the US. While a massive part of the native population had perished from old-world diseases, the land was hardly unoccupied. Northern Asia experienced no similar epidemics, yet Russia managed to close the steppe highway and expand its territory to China within a single century. What were the treatment of the indigenous 'Siberian' peoples, the turks, tartars, mongols and others ? Are there any stories of cultural and physical annihilation similar to that of the Native Americans ?