In preparation for the second Azov campaign of the Russo-Turkish War in the winter of 1696, large-scale construction of ships for a new Russian Navy was begun in Voronezh and Preobrazhensky, including 522 "strugas". The ships were delivered to Voronnezh in disassembled form, then assembled and launched. The industrial construction of "strugas" was implemented under Peter I, by his decree of December 28, 1715. In 1722, he made a round trip from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod and Astrakhan on the "Muscovets", a "strug" equipped with 18 rows of oars.