Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tekun Azov sau da yawa ya kasance wurin rikice-rikicen soja tsakanin Rasha, da ke neman fadada sojan ruwa zuwa kudu, da kuma babban iko a yankin, Turkiyya. A lokacin Yaƙin Rasha da Turkiyya (1686<unk>1700)
, an yi kamfen biyu a cikin 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.