In the southwest, the khanate bordered on the top of the Samur ridge with the Akhty-para, Alty-para free societies, as well as the Rutul Federation.

In the west and north, the Kura Khanate bordered on Gazikumukh, in the northeast with the Principality of Tabasaran.

Since 1791, the Lezgi people of Kura plain had lived under the Gazikumukh Khanate, whose ruler Surkhay II annexed the region, seizing it from Sheikh Mardan, the earlier lord.

Aslan bek, son of Sheikh Mardan and the implacable enemy of his uncle Surkhay Khan, was entrusted with administration in Kura under special conditions.

In 1812, the Tsarist government officially acknowledged Kura Khanate to serve as a buffer zone between Russian Empire and Gazikumukh.

According to the treaty signed on January 23, 1812, a garrison of the Russian troops from two battalions of infantry and hundreds of Cossacks was to be stationed in Kurakh.

The last khan was distinguished by greed, cruelty, and disdain for his subjects, which turned the people of the khanate against themselves.

[6] Russian authorities then disestablished the khanate, and its lands became part of the Kyurinsky okrug of Dagestan Oblast.