Vikings in the east

what would need happen for Vikings to go up the Russian coast and to Siberia and then go up the many river and establish trading relationships all through out northern Russia including Siberia
 
I think it would ask for the Arctic coast to lead to either trade partners and markets, or juicy targets. Thing is, northern Siberia was largely lacking these, and southern Siberian khaganates weren't in the least able to hold the comparison with Constantinople, Bagdad or Near East.
At the very best, I could see Scandinavian taking over the Itil-Volga trade road and overruning Bolgars, but that's it (and that's not hugely plausible in itself).
 
K I just read soak arc tiles speculateing Vikings had a small trading networks there due to oral stores about a traders who are never seen simply left there stuff and we take and leave the deal and then they take it without them ever touching it
 
At the very best, I could see Scandinavian taking over the Itil-Volga trade road and overruning Bolgars, but that's it (and that's not hugely plausible in itself).
Rus' did take over the Itil-Volga trade road, though.

They didn't defeat the Bolghars, but if Sviatoslav the Brave lived a few years longer and avoided the Balkan campaign, he probably could have conquered the Bolghars. The Rus' still had a significant Scandinavian element into the early 11th century, so that probably counts.
 
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Rus' did take over the Itil-Volga trade road, though.
I mean regularly and territorialy so : Rus' never really managed to take the control of lower half of Itil-Volga.

They didn't defeat the Bolghars, but if Sviatoslav the Brave lived a few years longer and avoided the Balkan campaign, he probably could have conquered the Bolghars.
Frankly, I doubt it : holding it all was maybe a bit too much for for the confederation Rus' was, as what happened after his death does points (or rather, how the division of Rus' even before his death does points to a degree).

K I just read soak arc tiles speculateing Vikings had a small trading networks there due to oral stores about a traders who are never seen simply left there stuff and we take and leave the deal and then they take it without them ever touching it
Silent trade is common enough. at least in Africa. it's hard to tell how much it was used, because it tended to be a literary tropes about remote peoples trade, but there's no reason to believe that it wasn't customary of peoples encountered by both Arabs and Scandinavians. Note these prractices are at least well written down, and not just oral tales, and that it was more located around their settlement in northern Rus' and in Volga trade network than Siberia.
 
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