Ulugh Muhammad (1405-1445) was ruler of the Golden Horde from 1419 to 1423 (succeeding Hajji Muhammad and preceding Barak Khan) and from 1428 to 1437 (succeeding Barak and preceding Sayid Ahmad I) and ruler of the Khanate of Kazan from 1438 to 1445 (preceding Maxmud).
Biography[]
Ulugh Muhammad was born in 1405, the son of Jalal ad-Din Khan ibn Tokhtamysh and a grandson of Tokhtamysh. He seized power on Jabbar Berdi's death and battled his cousin Dawlat Berdi for control of the Golden Horde. He controlled Sarai for much of his reign, but he was deposed by Barak Khan in 1422. He returned to power in 1428 with Vytautas of Lithuania's help, but, after again losing control of the Golden Horde in 1436, he fled to Crimea and established the Khanate of Kazan in 1438. He occupied Nizhny Novgorod in 1444 defeated Vasili II of Moscow at the 1445 Battle of Suzdal before he was murdered by his son Maxmud.