Ka cika wannan jumlar: Tekun Azov ya kasance wurin da ake yawan samun rikice-rikice tsakanin Rasha, da ke neman faɗaɗa rundunar jiragen ruwa zuwa kudu, da kuma babbar ƙasa a yankin, wato, Turkiya. A lokacin da
Yaƙin Russo-Turkish (1686<unk>1700), an yi kamfen biyu a 1695<unk>96 don kama sansanin soja na Azov na Turkiyya wanda garkuwar mutane 7,000 ke karewa. Yaƙin da Peter I ya jagoranta kuma yana da nufin samun damar Rasha zuwa Tekun Azov da Bahar Maliya. Yaƙin farko ya soma ne a lokacin bazara na shekara ta 1695. Sojojin Rasha sun ƙunshi mutane dubu 31 da bindigogi 170 kuma sun haɗa da zaɓaɓɓun rukunin da aka horar da Cossacks. Ya isa Azov a ranar 27 zuwa 28 ga Yuni kuma ya kewaye shi da ƙasa ta hanyar 5 ga Yuli. Bayan hare-haren biyu da ba su yi nasara ba a ranar 5 ga Agusta da 25 ga Satumba, an ɗage kewaye.