The Tatars, formerly also spelled Tartars, is an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar" across Eastern Europe and Asia. Initially, the ethnonym Tatar possibly referred to the Tatar confederation. That confederation was eventually incorporated into the Mongol Empire when Genghis Khan unified the various steppe tribes. Historically, the term Tatars was applied to anyone originating from the vast Northern and Central Asian landmass then known as Tartary, a term which was also conflated with the Mongol Empire itself. More recently, however, the term has come to refer more narrowly to related ethnic groups who refer to themselves as Tatars or who speak languages that are commonly referred to as Tatar.
Tatarstan, officially the Republic of Tatarstan, sometimes also called Tataria, is a republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is a part of the Volga Federal District; and its capital and largest city is Kazan, an important cultural centre in Russia. The region's main source of wealth is oil with a strong petrochemical industry.
Kazan is the largest city and capital of Tatarstan, Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka Rivers, covering an area of 425.3 square kilometres, with a population of over 1.3 million residents, and up to nearly 2 million residents in the greater metropolitan area. Kazan is the fifth-largest city in Russia, being the most populous city on the Volga, as well as within the Volga Federal District.
The Volga Tatars or simply Tatars are a Kipchak-Bulgar Turkic ethnic group native to the Volga-Ural region of western Russia. They are subdivided into various subgroups. 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.
Kazan International Airport is an international airport in Russia, around 25 km southeast of Kazan. It is the largest airport in Tatarstan, and one of the busiest airports in Russia as well as in Post-Soviet States. Kazan International Airport served more than 5 million passengers in 2023. In 2019 Airport was renamed to commemorate a Volga Tatar poet, critic, publisher, and towering figure of Tatar literature Ğabdulla Tuqay.
Nurlatsky District is a territorial administrative unit and municipality of the Republic of Tatarstan within the Russian Federation. The administrative center of the district is the city of Nurlat. In 2020, the population of the district was 58,290. Almost half of the district population lives in the district center.
Mirfatyh Zakievich Zakiev was a Soviet and Russian Turkologist.
The Tatar Wikipedia is the Tatar language edition of Wikipedia. Launched in September 2003, It currently has 502,107 articles, making it the 30th largest Wikipedia by article count. This Wikipedia has 6 administrators along with 53,161 registered users and 76 active users.
Aksubayevsky District is a territorial administrative unit and municipality of the Republic of Tatarstan within the Russian Federation. The district is located in the south of the Republic of Tatarstan, in the Zakamsk economic region. The administrative center of the district is the urban-type settlement Aksubaevo. The Aksubayevsky district is the only district in the republic where the Chuvash population is the prevailing ethnic group by comparison to the Tatar and Russian population of the district.
Almetyevsky District is a territorial administrative unit and municipality of the Republic of Tatarstan within the Russian Federation. The district is located in the southeastern central part of the republic and occupies an area of 2,542 square kilometers. According to the 2010 census, the municipality had a population of 197,493 people. The main city Almetyevsk is not included within the administrative structure of the district.
Atninsky District is a territorial administrative unit and municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan within the Russian Federation. The district is located in the northwest of the republic. The territory of the district includes 47 settlements, which are united into 12 rural settlements. As of 2020, 12 883 people reside in the district. The administrative center is the village of Bolshaya Atnya, founded during the period of the Khanate of Kazan.
Lilia Faridovna Gildeeva is a Russian journalist who worked for the NTV news program Segodnya from 2006 to 2022. She is famous for joking on air with her partner and colleague Alexey Pivovarov.
Roman Shaykhutdinov is a Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, responsible for development of Innopolis.
Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication, formerly Kazan Imperial University, is a higher educational institution of Kazan, one of the largest institutes of Kazan Federal University. IPIC has more than 4500 students, 300 teachers and staff members, including 58 Ph.D and 175 candidates of sciences, 11 teachers from foreign countries. The Institute comprises 3 academic divisions: the Leo Tolstoy Higher School of Russian and Foreign Philology, the Gabdulla Tukay Higher School of National Culture and Education and the I.A. Baudouin de Courtenay Higher School of Russian Language and Intercultural Communication. The Institute trains philologists and educators with expertise in linguistics, literary studies, Russian, Tatar and foreign languages, interpretation and translation, educational technologies, design, music, and choreography.
The Wikimedian of the Year is an annual award that honors Wikipedia editors and other contributors to Wikimedia projects to highlight major achievements within the Wikimedia movement, established in August 2011 by Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales. Wales selects the recipients and honors them at Wikimania, an annual conference of the Wikimedia Foundation—except in 2020, 2021, and 2022 when the recipients were announced at online meetings as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. From 2011 to 2016, the award was named Wikipedian of the Year.
Felix Nartey is a Ghanaian social entrepreneur and advocate. He was named the Wikimedian of the Year in 2017 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales at Wikimania. He is co-founder of Open Foundation West Africa and Creative Commons Ghana, where he is also the chapter lead.
Rina Zaripova was a Tatar journalist, translator, teacher, Merited Culture Worker of Tatarstan Republic (1995), and prizewinner of the competition for journalists "Bällür qäläm", or "Crystal pen" (2001).
Artyom Alekseyevich Zdunov, is a Russian statesman and politician, who is currently the 3rd Head of the Republic of Mordovia since 29 September 2021.
Wikigrannies is the group of Wikipedia authors and Wikimedians of elderly age, partly organized as a Wikimedia user group. As a user group, they originate from Bashkortostan, and tend to include participants and colleagues from other regions and countries.
