None Russia Siberia

I just had a thought, What if Russia never expanded eastwood, either through lack of unity, power or even just lack of curiosity. What would happen to siberia? who would colonize it or what would form there? would it just stay a power vacuum untill some european power fills it?
 
If the Russians dont do it, the Han chinese will.
I'm not sure about that. Chine seems to have searched to hold all that moved on his northern borders.

Granted, a XVII China would likely take and settle the eastern part, but for the 2/3 that remained, i would say or a tatar sucessor states or a Turkestan state.

For the last, it's not as weird as it seems, don't forget that Siberian tribes were converted to Islam in XIX (there's interesting sutidies about muslims finns). Granted it's a syncretism between Islam and old chamanic practices, but it let the door open to an turkic/tatar/muslim Siberia.
 
For the purpose of institutional memory;

Colonialism over Russia, aka an idea I'm simply already to deeply in love with....
WI: Russia did not colonize east of the Urals

Judging by a cursory glance of these threads, it would be plausible for northwestern Europe's maritime powers, such as the Danes, Dutch, or English, to secure large tracts of Siberia for the fur trade. The southern areas of Siberia have productive farmland and the region is vast in mineral resources, so if they hold on to Siberia long enough to discover this, there could be an influx of settlers and things could wind up very interesting. It's a stretch, but the idea of, for example, a Dutch-speaking Eurasian Canada-analogue is insanely cool in my opinion.

On the other hand, I don't think the Chinese had much interest in Siberia, and they already had vast tracts of sparsely populated land west of the Han heartland. On the other hand, if the Pacific coast of OTL Russia remained outside of the effective control of the Europeans or of strong enough native Khanates, it could be appealing to a modernizing and expansionist Korea or Japan.
 
Could a turkish, manchurian or mongolian power or culture expend and seizes at least regions? There was that Khanate of Sibir, by example.. maybe Kazakhs would go north, or manchus west...
 
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