Conflict continued after the fall of Kazan, however, as rebel governments formed in Çalım and Mişätamaq, and a new khan was invited from the Nogais.

The patriotic party regained power, Shah Ali fled and Yadegar Mokhammad of Kazan was called in as khan.

The Russian military engineer Ivan Vyrodkov had built this wooden fortress in 1551, when after the conclusion of peace, the right bank of the Khanate (Taw yağı) had passed to Russia.

The 150,000[1] strong Muscovite army under Ivan the Terrible came under Kazan's walls and laid siege to the city on August 22, 1552 (Old Style).

During the period from 30 August to 6 September Alexander Gorbatyi-Shuisky defeated the inner cavalry under Yapancha and the Ar units and burned Archa.

However, the few cannon defending Kazan had first to be put out of action for the tower to be effective, as it would otherwise have become an obvious target for the remaining Tatar artillery.

to have been led by the Englishman Butler, also known as Rozmysl in Russian chronicles) blew up the wall near the Nogai and Atalıq Gates.

Then, after the capture of khan Yadegar Moxammad and of Nogai leader Zaynash, the defenders of the citadel tried to escape to the northern forests, but they were defeated.

In 1558 Anikey Stroganov was granted large lands on the Kama River northeast of Kazan, which he worked to develop.

The tsarist administration prohibited the Tatars, Chuvash and Mari from settling along rivers and in cities, and also from engaging in blacksmith and jewelry crafts.

[5][6][7] In Tatarstan, a Memorial Day (Xäter Köne) is held each October to commemorate the fall of Kazan.