Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - "I raro i te Volga:" He maha nga pakanga a Russo-Kazan, i te nuinga o te wa e uru ana a Moscow me Crimea ki te tautoko i nga kaitono mo te torona o Kazan, engari he tawhiti rawa a Kazan (700e, 25s) kia ngawari te mahi. I hangaia nga pa kaha i Vasilsursk i runga i te Volga i raro o Nizhny Novgorod (1523: 533e) me Sviyazhsk (1551: 675e, 25s) e tata ana ki Kazan. I riro a Kazan i te tau 1552. I te tau 1554, ka whakanohoia e Moscow he rangatira Nogai ki te torona o Astrakhan. I a ia e tutu ana, ka uru a Russia ki Astrakhan (1556: 700e, 1000s). (Ko tenei whakawhānui nui ki te tonga-rawhiti i whakawhirinaki ki te kawe awa i raro i te Volga, engari kaore tenei i te marama mai i nga puna Ingarihi.) I te Pakanga Tuatahi a Ruhia-Turiki (1568<unk>1570)
, i ngana nga Ottomans kaore i taea te whakahoki mai i a Astrakhan mo te Ihirama. Whai muri i te Pakanga o Livonian, i hangaia nga pa waenga i runga i te Volga: Samara (1586: 300s, 800e), Saratov (1590: 450s, 500e), Tsaritsyn (Volgograd) (1589: 800s, 400e). I waenganui i te Volga me Urals Ufa (350s, 1100e) i whakaturia i roto i 1574.