Çalım was a citadel and a staff of Tatar troops, which was constructed during the

Kazan War The Russo-Kazan Wars were a series of short, intermittent wars fought between the Grand Principality of Moscow and the Khanate of Kazan between 1437 and 1556. Most of these were wars of succession in Kazan, in which Muscovy intervened on behalf ...

for the restoration of the

Khanate of Kazan The Khanate of Kazan was a Tatar 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; ...

in 1552-1556. The citadel was constructed by the people under

Mameshbirde Mameshbirde (, , , ) (died 1556) was a rebel commander during Kazan War for the independence of Kazan Khanate in 1552–1556. According to legend, he was a son of Mari noble and Chuvash noble woman. In 1555, some years after the fall of Kazan, ...

at the right bank of

Volga The Volga (, ) is the longest river in Europe and the longest endorheic basin river in the world. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of , and a catchment ...

at the Sundır hill in 1555. It was situated in 160

çaqrım Traditional Tatar units of measurement were used by Tatars until 1924 but became obsolete when the Soviet Union adopted the metric system. The Tatar system shares many units with the Russian system (e.g. and ), which is close to the English (th ...

upper than

Kazan Kazan; , IPA: Help:IPA/Tatar, ɑzanis the largest city and capital city, capital of Tatarstan, Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka (river), Kazanka Rivers, covering an area of , with a population of over 1. ...

. In 1556, it was seized by Russian troops and ruined.

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Khanate of Kazan Russo-Kazan Wars Defunct towns in Russia 1550s in Europe {{Russia-hist-stub