Early in the following century, Peter the Great constructed a shipyard here and made Astrakhan the base for his hostilities against Persia, and later in the same century Catherine the Great accorded the city important industrial privileges.
U početku idućeg stoljeća Petar Veliki je sagradio ovdje brodogradilište i napravio bazu za njegova vojna djelovanja prema Perziji, a kasnije, istog stoljeća, Katarina II. je gradu dala važne industrijske povlastice.