The Tatars, formerly also spelled Tartars, is an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar" across Eastern Europe and Asia.
Musa Cälil was a Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter during World War II. He is the only poet of the Soviet Union awarded simultaneously the Hero of the Soviet Union award for his resistance fighting and the Lenin Prize for having written The Moabit Notebooks; both awards were bestowed upon him posthumously.
The Lipka Tatars are a Tatar ethnic group and minority in Lithuania, who originally settled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the beginning of the 14th century.
Siberian Tatars or Sebers are the indigenous Turkic-speaking population of the forests and steppes of Western Siberia, originating in areas stretching from somewhat east of the Ural Mountains to the Yenisey River in Russia. The Siberian Tatars call themselves Yerle Qalıq, to distinguish themselves from more recent Volga Tatar immigrants to the region.
The Volga Tatars or simply Tatars, and occasionally by the historical Turko-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.
Ibragimov, Ibrahimov or Ibragimova, Ibrahimova is a common Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Tatar and Central Asian surname. The spelling reflects the Cyrillic alphabet's version of the name Ibrahim, an Islamic version of the Abraham.
A Tatar personal name, being strongly influenced by Russian tradition, consists of two main elements: isem and familia and also patronymic. Given names were traditional for Volga Bulgars for centuries, while family names appeared in the end of the 19th century, when they replaced patronymics. In fact, the usage of family names appeared when Russian scribers gave documents to Bulgars. Later, being adapted to Soviet tradition, Volga Bulgars started to use a patronymic as the third element, especially in informal communication.
The Crimean Regional Government refers to two successive short-lived regimes in the Crimean Peninsula during 1918 and 1919.
The Nogais are a Kipchak people who speak a Turkic language and live in Southeastern Europe, North Caucasus, Volga region, Central Asia and Turkey. Most are found in Northern Dagestan and Stavropol Krai, as well as in Karachay-Cherkessia, Chechnya and Astrakhan Oblast; some also live in Dobruja, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and a small Nogai diaspora is found in Jordan. They speak the Nogai language and are descendants of various Mongolic and Turkic tribes who formed the Nogai Horde. There are eight main groups of Nogais: the Ak Nogai, the Karagash, the Kuban-Nogai, the Kundraw-Nogai, the Qara-Nogai, the Utars, Bug-Nogai, and the Yurt-Nogai.
The Luhansk Cathedral Mosque is a mosque in Luhansk, Ukraine.
Garayev or Garaev is a masculine surname common among Azeris, Volga Tatars, Turkmens, Bashkirs; its feminine form is Garayeva or Garaeva. The surname may refer to:
Gizzatullin (masculine) or Gizzatullina (feminine) is a Tatar and Bashkir common modern surname of originally Arabic origin. The surname is Russian adaptation of the Tatar and Bashkir first name Gizzatulla, which is the form of the Arabic name Izzatullah, translated as 'majesty', 'honor' and 'might' of Allah. Corrupted variations: Gizzatulin/Izzatulin, Gizatullin/Izatullin/Zatullin, Gizatulin/Izatulin/Zatulin/Tulin. The native form of the surname is Gizzatulla.
Aydar Gabdulkhaevich Akhatov is a Russian state, political and public figure, journalist, scientist-economist, ecologist, lawyer, artist. He is an ethnic Tatar.
The Mishar Tatars, previously known as the Meshcheryaki (мещеряки), are the second largest subgroup of the Volga Tatars, after the Kazan Tatars. Traditionally, they have inhabited the middle and western side of Volga, including the nowadays Mordovia, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Ryazan, Penza, Ulyanovsk, Orenburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara regions of Russia. Many have since relocated to Moscow. Mishars also comprise the majority of Finnish Tatars and Tatars living in other Nordic and Baltic countries.
Ildar Abdulovich Ibragimov is a Russian mathematician, specializing in probability theory and mathematical statistics.
Uzeir Abduramanovich Abduramanov was a sapper in the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War. After securing the safe transfer of troops across the Sozh river under heavy enemy fire and through icy water, he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 15 January 1944.
Ablâziz Veliyev is a Crimean Tatar writer, poet, academic, and historian. He has written many books about Crimean Tatar soldiers of the Red Army during World War II, especially ones who were nominated for the title Hero of the Soviet Union but received a lower award instead.
