Taibuga

Taibuga (Siberian Tatar: Тайбоға қан, romanized: 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.^[1]

The facts of his reign remain relatively unclear, but it appears he was a shamanist.^[2] Taibuga drove the forces of Novgorod from his land.^[3] He was claimed as the founding ancestor by the Taibuga clan of Sibir.^[4]