in the campaign “Establishment of the First Foothold on the Sunzha River (1567)”
To construct the base on the lands of the Nokhchi, the administration brought in armed detachments: historian E. N. Kusheva writes that in the spring of 1567 the voivodes A. S. Babichev and P. Protasyev were dispatched from Moscow "with many men, as well as ordnance, cannons, and arquebuses"[1], while historians A. S. Kulikov and V. A. Runov note that they were sent "with firepower and many men"[2].