page_title: Tatarstan
section_title: 1921–1922 famine
hierarchical_section_title: Tatarstan / History / Early 20th century / 1921–1922 famine
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Городище Великие Булгары: Спасский район, Татарстан This image is related to the protected area of Russia number 1600162This template and pages using it are maintained by the Russian WLE team. Please read the guidelines before making any changes that can affect the database!
context_page_description: The Republic of Tatarstan, or simply Tatarstan, is a federal subject of the Russian Federation, located in the Volga Federal District. Its capital is the city of Kazan.
  The republic borders Kirov, Ulyanovsk, Samara, and Orenburg Oblasts, the Mari El, Udmurt, and Chuvash Republics, and the Republic of Bashkortostan. The area of the republic is 68,000 square kilometres. The unofficial Tatarstan motto is Bez Buldırabız!. As of the 2010 Census, the population of Tatarstan was 3,786,488.
  The state has strong cultural ties with its eastern neighbor, the Republic of Bashkortostan.
  The state languages of the Republic of Tatarstan are Tatar and Russian.
context_section_description: There was a famine in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1921 to 1922 as a result of war communist policy. The famine deaths of 2,000,000 Tatars in Tatar ASSR and in Volga-Ural region in 1921–1922 was catastrophic as half of Volga Tatar population in USSR died. This famine is also known as "terror-famine" and "famine-genocide" in Tatarstan. The Soviets settled ethnic Russians after the famine in Tatar ASSR and in Volga-Ural region causing the Tatar share of the population to decline to less than 50%. The All-Russian Tatar Social Center (VTOTs) has asked the United Nations to condemn the 1921 Tatarstan famine as Genocide of Muslim Tatars. The 1921–1922 famine in Tatarstan has been compared to the Holodomor in Ukraine.
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