Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Zvinyorwa zvokutanga zvine chokuita nemisha yeCossack: "stanitsa", inodzokera shure kuna 1549. Mugore ra1552 Don Cossacks vaitungamirirwa naAtaman Susar Fedorov vakabatana neHondo yaIvan the Terrible panguva yeKukombwa kweKazan
muna 1552. Musi wa2 Chikumi 1556 Cossack regiment yaAtaman Lyapun Filimonov, pamwe chete neHondo yeMoscovits inosanganisira strelets, vakakunda uye vakabatanidza Astrakhan Khanate.