Kho Orluk

Kho Orluk (d. 1644), was an Oirat prince and Tayishi of the Torghut-Oirat tribe. Around 1630, Kho Orluk persuaded the other Torghut princes and lessor nobility to move their tribe en masse westward through southern Siberia and southward along the Emba River to the grass steppes north of the Russian garrison at Astrakhan. During the process of securing the steppes for his people, Kho Orluk met limited resistance from the local Muslim tribesman, therefore setting the foundation of what would later become known as the Kalmyk Khanate.