in the campaign “Cyclical Rebuilding and Elimination of Fortifications on the Sunzha River (1571–1653)”
The occupation administration of the Tsardom of Muscovy systematically brought armed detachments into the lands of the Nokhchi to hold the bridgehead: the compiler of the collection of documents E. N. Kusheva indicates that at the site of the fortress, "by order of the Terek voivodes, a detachment of streltsy and Cossacks was permanently stationed"[1], and during the siege of 1653 it held "Russian service men, Terek atamans, and Cossacks"[1].