The monograph examined issues of Siberian military history, which for a long time did not attract the attention of researchers and therefore turned out to be less studied. It does not describe military battles, there is no information about the heroic personalities of the Russian army. The main attention is focused on the less bright pages of the military history of the Fatherland: preparing young people for military service, recruiting Siberians for recruits and recruits, organizing delivery to places of military service, and the length of military service in the Russian army. Considered existing in Russia in the second half of the XIX - early XX century. ways to evade young people from military service and counter the authorities to this phenomenon. It is shown how the central military structures and Siberian administrators related to the problem of attracting the indigenous population of Siberia and the Far East to military service. The chronological framework of the study covers more than half a century: from the second half of the XIX century. and before the outbreak of the First World War.