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The first Europeans in the area arrived in 1623, intending to collect taxes from the local Buryat population.
Permanent settlement began with the construction of an ostrog ( fortress ) in 1636 at the junction of the Oka and Angara rivers.
Several wooden towers from the 17th-century fort are now exhibited in Kolomenskoye Estate of Moscow.
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