 In 1911, the population of the workers settlement reached 1000.In 1913, by an order of the Governor of the Steppe Krai, Glinka was renamed as Yermak in memory of Yermak Timofeyevich, the 16th-century Russian conqueror of Western Siberia.Both the Voskresensk Wharf and the Glinka village became parts of what was now called the Yermak settlement.