Ivan sends Russian Strelets and Cossack armies,…

Ivan sends Russian Strelets and Cossack armies, who conquer and annexed the region in 1556.

Xacitarxan, the Khanate’s capital, situated approximately twelve kilometers north of the modern city of Astrakhan, is besieged and burned; the khanate is absorbed by Russia and abolished.

Darwish Khan escapes to the castle of Azov.

This leaves the Sibir Khanate as the sole remaining independent Tatar state in Russia, and thus consolidates imperial control of the Volga River basin and guaranteeing Russian access to the Caspian Sea.

After the fall of Astrakhan, the Tatars are attacked by Kalmyks who, also displace the nomadic Nogai Horde.

Many Nogay remove to the regions of present Kazakhstan and Dagestan.