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The article considers and analyzes some brief historical evidence and visual materials testifying to Kuchum Khan’s run out of Siberian metropolitan town of Qaşliq, accompanied by his entourages and supporters from among Siberian Tatar warriors. He hastily headed southward to the steppe southern regions of West Siberia and northern regions of current Kazakhstan to those remote areas, where at that time there were settlement sites of Kazakh steppe nomads within the Kazakh nomadic association. Accompanied by his supporters, Kuchum Khan went to his former residence, where he used to live before seizing power in the Siberian Khanate. He left many Siberian Tatar towns in the Siberian Khanate territory without his military support, hastily escaped and refused to defend them, fearful to confront the Russian Cossacks weaponed with fire-arms. Some brief information about these historical events is reflected in the text and illustrations of «Brief Siberian (Kungur) Chronicle». This article objective is to examine the data and visual materials dedicated to a historical plot presented in the text and illustrations of this historical source. The analyzed illustration of Siberian Tatar three towns located between streams on a hillside along the Irtysh River bank. There is a defensive trench along the walls of a Siberian Tatar town. At the upper part of the illustration, there are three troops of equestrian Siberian Tatar warriors, who are probably going to the steppe regions of West Siberia and northern Kazakhstan. The authors analyze features of the armament, headdresses and clothes, as well as the standards of Siberian Tatar warriors, which are at the illustration. They consider an image of a pedestrian Siberian Tatar warrior troop. The pictorial materials significantly supplement the studied written source data about the hasty escape of Siberian Kuchum Khan and his supporters to the steppes.