AH Challenge: Tunguska City

Specific PODs are tough to make a meteor a major city, so instead, lets take the city to the meteor. Your challenge is to have a town/city/settlement in the Tunguska area by the 1908 event.
 

boredatwork

Banned
I can't agree on the first supposition. Miniscule variations in outgasing, surface reflectivity, or other orbits could result in a given meteor hitting anywhere on the earth, or missing entirely.

That aside... how about some sort of early gulag/internal colony situation? You won't get a full-on metropolis, but you might be able to end up with a few dozen thousand souls at near the impact site.
 

Dialga

Banned
Maybe the Cossacks set up an outpost there in the 1600s or so, when they were actively exploring Siberia? I doubt such a town would get very large, though.
 
Maybe Muscovy never shakes off the Tatars, and North Asia is dominated by a Manchu state, something that could happen if the Korean Kingdom of Gorguryeo is far more successful than OTL (maybe if Tang or Silla get into a nasty succession crisis/civil war), and stops the Manchu from migrating from the North to modern-day Manchuria.
 
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