Huns movement from volga to the west and its consequences.

The mass resettlement of Hunnish peoples to west from Volga was connected with movement of a Hunnish Hunugur people, in which a clan Bulyar held a prevailing position. In the beginning of the 4 c. Hunugurs left Tarbagatai region under a leadership of Bulmar (in the Greek sources his name is given in the form Belemer) from the clan Bulyar. At first Hunugurs wanted to settle down in the Semirechye regions. When it failed, they set out further west, and came to the Middle Volga basin. It happened approximately in 329 AD. At that time Utigs were left without a ruler. The last ruler of princedom Bulyar Djoka-Utig was killed, together with his sons, in a battle with Scandinavians . Therefore, Utigs recognized Bulmar as a ruler. He ruled the princedom Bulyar for 30 years. The winter of 359 - 360 was severe, trees split from severe cold, birds were falling in flight. There were no rains in the spring and summer. A hunger began. A loss of cattle resulted in famine. To save his people from death, Bulmar took Hunugur people to the west of Volga, Together with Hunugurs went a part of Utigs, Khots and Huns, who lived in the Caspian lowland. The Byzantian and Latin historians called them by a collective name Huns. The Huns crossed Volga in 360 AD (before, it was believed in 350 AD) . Alans tried to blockage Huns in their move to the west. Alans are the ancestors of modern Ossetians, descendants of Kara Saklans (western Saklans, separated from Sinds-Urts in remote times). Alans, led by a prince Boz-Urus used the usual Sarmatian tactics of combat. Their soldiers-riders were protected by chain mail armour, and armed with swords. Alans attached long lances to horse necks with chains. To the strike of the lance it gave a power of a fast running horse. Alans used to break easily an enemy infantry, armed with light bows .

Ammianus Marcellinus wrote about Hunnish tactics of combat in the end of the 4-th capter: "They battle from afar by flying arrows, to which with remarkable skill are attached bone arrowheads as sharp tips, but, having crossed the (separating them from an enemy) distance, they fight hand-to-hand with swords, not thinking at all about themselves. When they see a danger of the enemy blades, they throw nooses which entangle enemies, so, capturing them with a noose demobilize the resisting from moving mounted or on foot" . If Ammianus Marcellinus compared the approach of the Huns to a snow hurricane in the mountains, historian Jeronimus (5-th c.) compared it with a cloud of bees. The onslaught of Huns was so powerful and furious, that Alans broke and began to retreat to the west in a panic. Other peoples, who lived in the regions of Northern Caucasus, also began to leave with Alans. Thus began the so-called Great Movement Of The Peoples.

In second half of the 60-es - first half of the 70-es of the 4-th c, Huns reached the east coast of the Azov sea (then called Meotida) and came to the lowlands of Don. On the east coast of the Azov sea lived Sarmatian peoples Yazygs and Roxolans. They could not resist the onslaught of the Huns. Utigs and Khots returned to the home of their ancestors Cimmerians.

In 375 or 376 AD Huns came to Don. Here they met with Ostrogoths. Their leader was king Germanarix. The Goth came to Northern Pontic in the second half of the 2-nd c. Depending where they resettle, the German peoples were grouped in "Vest" and "Ost" Goths, i.e. western and eastern Goths. Ostgoths (Ostrogoths) camped between the Dniestr and western bank of Don, and the Visigoths (Vesegoths) lived in Walacia, Moldova and modern Bessarabia.

Due to an incident (the Hun hunters saw as a deer crossed Kerch straight in a narrow

place of 3 - 4 km), Huns crossed Kerch straight, shallow from the Don silt, to the

Crimean peninsula and struck Ostgoths from the rear. Defeated Ostgoths left to the west.