Dee ihe na-aga n'ihu maka paragraf a - Ihe ndekọ mbụ metụtara obodo Cossack: "stanitsa", malitere na 1549. N'afọ 1552 Don Cossacks n'okpuru iwu nke Ataman Susar Fedorov sonyeere ndị agha nke Ivan the Terrible n'oge nnọchibido nke Kazan
n'afọ 1552. Na 2 June 1556 ndị Cossack regiment nke Ataman Lyapun Filimonov, ya na ndị agha nke Muscovites gụnyere strelets, meriri ma jikọta Astrakhan Khanate.