LOWER POVOLZHIE IN THE GOLDEN HORDE TIME
The article is dedicated to the historical events that unfolded on the Lower Volga after the Mongol invasions to Europe. The Lower Volga region became the center of the powerful Golden Horde Khanate, which reached its heyday by the X1V century. By the end of the 15 th century, the Golden Horde, torn apart by internecine strife and turmoil, had broken up into the Astrakhan, Kazan, Crimean and Siberian khanates, the Uzbek nomadic khanate, the Great Horde.