Ku qor sii wadida faqradan - Diiwaanada ugu horreeya ee la xiriira tuulooyinka Cossack: "stanitsa", waxay taariikhdu tahay 1549. Sanadkii 1552-kii Don Cossacks oo uu hogaaminayay Ataman Susar Fedorov ayaa ku biiray ciidankii Ivan the Terrible intii lagu jiray go'doominta Kazan
Sanadkii 1552 kii Bishii Juun 2, 1556, guutada Cossack ee Ataman Lyapun Filimonov, oo ay weheliyaan Ciidanka Muscovites oo ka kooban strelets, ayaa qabsaday oo ku biiray Astrakhan Khanate.