When he was a few days old, he was taken away from his parents, after physicians and aid workers urged them to send him to a baby house, wondering, why they need such a child without hands and feet and assuring them, he won't live long anyway.

The time which he spent in the orphanage was positive; Astashov learned all the regular tasks, including walking.

[3] Searching for financial support, he met Anton Shipulin, former biathlete and current State Duma deputy, in 2019.

Moreover, he also had the chance to take part in the triathlon competition, but the class in which he competes, PTS2, is not a sanctionized category in the Paralympics.

[2][4] At the Summer Paralympics, held in Tokyo in August 2021, Astashov won gold in the 2020 individual pursuit C1 event, setting a World Record in the qualifying round and overlapping Tristen Chernove in the final.