Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: "I lalo o le Volga:" E tele taua a Rusia ma Kazan, e masani lava ona aofia ai Moscow ma Crimea e lagolagoina ai tagata eseese na talosaga mo le nofoalii o Kazan, ae o Kazan (700e, 25s) sa mamao tele e feagai ma faigofie. Na fausia fale malupuipuia i Vasilsursk i le Volga i lalo ifo o Nizhny Novgorod (1523: 533e) ma Sviyazhsk (1551: 675e, 25s) e latalata i Kazan. Na faatoʻilaloina Kazan i le 1552. I le 1554, na tofia ai e Moscow se perenise Nogai e avea ma tupu o Astrakhan. Ina ua fouvale o ia, na faatoʻilaloina ai e Lusia Astrakhan (1556: 700e, 1000s). (O lenei faalauteleina tele i le itu i saute i sasaʻe atonu na faalagolago i femalagaiga i le vaitafe o le Volga, ae e lē o manino mai lenei mea i faamaumauga a Peretania.) I le Uluai
I le taua a Rusia ma Turkey (1568-1570), na taumafai ai le ʻau Ottoman ae lē mafai ona toe faatoʻilaloina Astrakhan mo le isalama. Ina ua maeʻa le taua a Livonia, na fausia ai maota tutotonu i luga o le Volga: Samara (1586: 300s, 800e), Saratov (1590: 450s, 500e), Tsaritsyn (Volgograd) (1589: 800s, 400e). I le va o le Volga ma Ural Ufa (350s, 1100e) na faavaeina i le 1574.