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Volga Tatars are the second-largest ethnic group in Russia after ethnic Russians. Most of them live in the republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. Their native language is Tatar, a language of the Turkic language family. The predominant religion is Sunni Islam, followed by Orthodox Christianity .
- 5,000
- 73,304
- 25,500
The largest Tatar populations are the Volga Tatars, native to the Idel-Ural (Volga-Ural) region of European Russia, and the Crimean Tatars of Crimea. Smaller groups of Lipka Tatars and Astrakhan Tatars also live in Europe and the Siberian Tatars in Asia.
- 900+
- 700
- 56,000, (incl. those of mixed ancestries)
- 1,916
Tatar, any member of several Turkic-speaking peoples that collectively numbered more than 5 million in the late 20th century and lived mainly in west-central Russia along the central course of the Volga River and its tributary, the Kama, and thence east to the Ural Mountains.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Learn about the history, culture, and language of the Volga Tatars, a Turkic ethnic group living in Russia and Central Asia. Find out how they became Muslims, adopted the Cyrillic script, and faced ethnic and linguistic challenges.
Volga Tatars are the second-largest ethnic group in Russia after ethnic Russians. Most of them live in the republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. Their native language is Tatar, a language of the Kipchak-Bolgar subdivision of the Turkic language family. The predominant religion is Sunni Islam.
23. Juli 2019 · Learn about the origins, traditions, and challenges of Volga Tatars, the largest ethnic minority in the Russian Federation and one of the largest stateless ethnonational groups in Europe. Explore their history of statehood, reform, and interaction with the Russian state from the medieval to the post-communist period.
Gateway between European Russia and Siberia: the Tatar People and their Capital. Tatars identify themselves as the descendents of the Bolgars, the people who lived in the Volga region before the Mongol invasion. They converted to Islam in the year 922.
