Taibuga
{{Short description|First Khan of Sibir}}
Taibuga ({{langx|sty|Тайбоға қан|Tayboğa qan}}), the first khan of the Khanate of Sibir, came to power in the 13th century as a result of the power vacuum caused by the breakup of the Mongol Empire. Some legendary accounts identify him as a noble from Bukhara and associate him with the conversion of Sibir to Islam.
{{cite book
| last1 = Frank
| first1 = Allen J.
| title = Bukhara and the Muslims of Russia: Sufism, Education, and the Paradox of Islamic Prestige
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CVozAQAAQBAJ
| series = Brill's Inner Asian Library
| date = 14 September 2012
| publisher = Brill
| publication-date = 2012
| page = 37
| isbn = 9789004234901
| accessdate = 2015-10-12
| quote = In the historical legends of the Siberian Tatars the two Muslim dynasties that pre-dated the Russian conquest are linked explicitly to Bukhara. [...] Several accounts in West Siberian Turkic manuscripts relate an account of the history of the dynasty that Kuchum displaced, the Taybughids. These legends [...] state that the founder of the Taybughid dynasty, Taybugha Biy, came from Bukhara, and was the son of a ruler there. Taybugha Biy brought a number of religious scholars with him, and they were responsible for the Islamization of Siberia.
}}
The facts of his reign remain relatively unclear, but it appears he was a shamanist.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b_YUAAAAYAAJ&dq=Taibuga&pg=PA1062 |title=History of the Mongols: The so-called Tartars of Russia and Central Asia. 2 v |date=1880 |work= |publisher=Longmans, Green, and Company |accessdate=2 July 2008}} Taibuga drove the forces of Novgorod from his land.{{cite book |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13767b.htm |title=Catholic Encyclopedia |date=1912 |work= |publisher=Robert Appleton Company |accessdate=2 July 2008}} He was claimed as the founding ancestor by the Taibuga clan of Sibir.{{cite book |author=James Forsyth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nzhq85nPrdsC&dq=Taibuga&pg=PA25 |title=A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990 |date=1994 |work= |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521477710 |accessdate=2 July 2008}}