Eset Kotibaruli

Eset Batyr was born in 1803 near the Lake Shalkar in Kazakhstan in the family of famous judge and leader Kotibar.

[3] The Tsar's administration sent two Cossack detachments and 200 Kazakhs controlled by Sultan Taukin and Major Mikhailov from the Ural division.

[2] The rebels put forward a number of demands: the removal of tax for households, termination of the sending of punitive detachments to the Kazakh steppe, allowing usage of pastures and the possibility to move on the banks of rivers Zhem, Mugadzhar, Elek, Kobda, Zhayyk.

The newly created punitive detachment under the leadership of Sultan Arslan Zhantorin was defeated by the army of Eset Batyr.

[2] The Russian Government understood that it would be unsuccessful in continuing to use force against Eset Batyr and Governor-General Katenin offered peace promising to comply with the rebel demands.