Volga Tatars went through a long process of ethnogenesis in an area populated by dozens of different ethnicities, so some genetic samples were taken from nearest neighbors, such as Mishars ...

For the Volga cannot be compared with the Rhine or the Hudson in castles or scenery. It has, instead, a grand, placid charm of its own, imperial, indefinable, and sweet.

How exactly do you look for a civilization that never existed? Usually, civilizations leave behind something: art, artifacts, ...

The four major subgroups of the Tatar nation are the Crimean Tatars, Siberian Tatars, Volga Tatars, and Lipka Tatars.

Kazan, on the banks of the Volga River, is the capital of the mainly Muslim republic of Tatarstan, some 700 kilometers east of Moscow. The Tatars trace their lineage back to the Mongols who raced ...

The historic Volga Tatars, who remained Moslems even in the face of all the endless persecution of Christian Moscow, were for centuries the elite of the Moslem world.

Russian Tatars feel threatened as Putin pursues nationalist agenda Farit Zakiev, chairman of the All-Tatar Public Center, a social organization based in Kazan, in Russia’s republic of Tatarstan.

The Tatars' paternalistic treatment of the other Volga peoples reflects ancient autonomist and expansionist instincts at the same time, reinforced by the contingency of the Russo-Ukrainian war ...

The Tatars' paternalistic treatment of the other Volga peoples reflects ancient autonomist and expansionist instincts at the same time, reinforced by the contingency of the Russo-Ukrainian war ...