The book about Ermak, the conqueror of Siberia, belongs to the pen of the recognized classic of the historical and biographical genre Ruslan Grigoryevich Skrynnikov. Based on a painstaking analysis of extensive documentary material, it recreates the grand panorama of the expedition of Russian Cossacks led by Ataman Ermak Timofeevich (1582-1585), which resulted in the annexation of Siberia to the Russian state. There is no doubt that this event has become one of the most important in the entire Russian history, and Ermak himself belongs to the number of outstanding people of our Fatherland. As an Appendix, the book contains the texts of two Siberian chronicles of the XVII century, telling about the epic of Ermak, as well as the original text of the Synod to the Ermak Cossacks, compiled in 1622 with the participation of the surviving Cossacks of his squad