Khanate of Kazan
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The Khanate of Kazan was a medieval Tatar Turkic state that occupied the territory of the former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552. The khanate covered contemporary Tatarstan, Mari El, Chuvashia, Mordovia, and parts of Udmurtia and Bashkortostan; its capital was the city of Kazan. It was one of the successor states of the Golden Horde, and it came to an end when it was conquered by the Tsardom of Russia.
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Russo-Kazan Wars
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The Russo-Kazan Wars was a series of wars fought between the Grand Principality of Moscow and the Khanate of Kazan from 1437, until Kazan was finally conquered by the Tsardom of Russia under Ivan the Terrible in 1552.
St. Basil's Cathedral is a monument to the Russian conquest of Kazan in 1552
Medieval Russians used skis to facilitate transportation during their winter campaigns
Tower of the Nizhny Novgorod kremlin, built in 1500–1511 to repel attacks by the Kazan Tatars.
Ivan IV under the walls of Kazan