Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An ce an kafa khanate ne a 1466 amma bai rabu da Golden Horde ba har zuwa ƙarshen Horde a 1502. A shekara ta 1459 mai mulkin Golden Horde Küchük Muhammad ya mutu kuma an raba ikon tsakanin 'ya'yansa Ahmed Khan bin Küchük, mutumin da ya rasa Rasha a 1480, da Mahmud bin Küchük wanda ke zaune a kusa da Astrakhan. Mahmud ko ɗansa Qasim I ne ya kafa khanate. Dukkanin khans na Astrakhan sun fito ne daga Mahmud ko ɗan'uwansa Ahmed. Ambrogio Contarini ya ziyarci shi a cikin 1476. Howorth (kawai) ya ce Ahmed da Ibak Khan sun kewaye shi wani lokaci kafin 1480. Wikipedia na Rasha (kawai) ya ce an kewaye shi da ɗan'uwan Ibak da Nogais a cikin 1492. Crimea ta mamaye shi sau biyu (Mehmed I Giray a 1523 da Sahib I Giray a 1549). A al'adance khanate yana da alaƙar soja da ta diflomasiyya tare da Crimea, Nogais kuma wani lokacin Circassians. Sadarwar diflomasiyya da Moscow ta fara ne a shekara ta 1532 ko kuma a baya. A wannan lokacin Moscow tana fadada gabas zuwa Kazan wanda ya ci nasara a 1552. Har ila yau, yana samun ikon yin amfani da karfi a kan Volga tsakanin Kazan da Astrakhan, wani abu da ba a bayyana a cikin kafofin ba. A cikin 1551 Yamghurchi na Astrakhan ya yi biyayya ga Moscow. Ba da daɗewa ba ya canza gefe kuma ya haɗu da Crimea da Nogais. Rasha ta aika da sojoji 30,000 su yi yaƙi da shi. A shekara ta 1554 ya gudu daga garin kuma Rasha ta sanya abokin aikinta Dervish Ali Astrakhani wanda ba da daɗewa ba ya fara makirci tare da Crimeans. Rasha ta aika da karin sojoji kuma ta mamaye Astrakhan a shekara ta 1556, ta ci gaba da lalata babbar kasuwar bayi a Volga. A cikin 1558 'Astrakhan' an motsa shi kilomita 12 zuwa kudu zuwa wurin da yake yanzu. A shekara ta 1569 Ottomans ba su iya
don dawo da Astrakhan ga Musulunci.