The first appearance of Tatars in Crimea dates back to 1223, as one ancient chronicle record says. Since that time, the gradual settlement of Crimea by these immigrants from the steppes of central Asia, which appeared at the beginning of the XIII century. at the borders of the East European plain. Folk memories indicate that the Tatars penetrated the Crimea in separate hordes led by relatives-military leaders. Here is one of these legends: "the ancestor of the Beys (princes) of Yashlavsky Abak-bey-Kudalak in the past centuries came to Crimea from the Volga River and brought with him the peoples subject to him who served under his banners. In Crimea, he conquered the city of Kir (Chufut-Kale) with all its lands and settled in Yashdag, and his descendants and people spread in different places acquired by him..."