Talk:Tatars

message: I have raised the matter here, here, here, and here in the hopes of generating more knowledgeable discussion on the matter. ~~ Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 02:09, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Digging through the article history, I found that this use of archaic terminology has been around for quite a while. It was first added to the lead section on 8 July 2005 by User:Kennethtennyson, who has not edited since 2007. On 6 July 2006, User:Der Ritter added the information regarding so-called "facial types", albeit with different terminology; he announced that he was leaving the project in June 2009 due to apparent ideological differences. The information was changed to the most recent wording on 20 April 2008 by IP 193.77.231.230, who geolocates to Slovenia, just like the user currently pushing to retain the wording; they are almost certainly the same individual. ~~ Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 07:00, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

text: The suffixWiktionary:-oid simply means "form or likeness".  It is not the suffix itself that is objectionable, rather it is the pseudo-science used to "class" peoples on the basis of superficial likeness or form.  If no other compromise can be reached, perhaps attach a note regarding the usage of such terms with a link to Scientific racism. Meclee (talk) 14:11, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the suffix itself may be so simple by definition, but the terms using the suffix carry a lot more baggage. You will certainly get raised eyebrows if you start throwing the term "Mongoloid" around, and looks of confusion when you start bringing in the really obscure terms like "Lapponoid" (note the redlink). ~~ Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 15:49, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Apologies if my comment offended you.  Merely trying to suggest possible resolution to edit conflict. Meclee (talk) 14:24, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No worries; I took no offence. But to be quite honest, I'm beginning to doubt that the other party in the dispute will ever show up to argue his case here. ~~ Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 15:57, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typological "classifications" 

message: There ought to be a fine balance between historically important and modern-day Tatars in the infobox. As of now, the balance is skewed to the former. JackofDiamonds1 (talk) 23:25, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, User:Гропспонт has been warring to include a load of dead people in the image. I'm just going to change it back to the one he keeps removing. ~~ Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 00:38, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photos in the infobox 

message: How many of the "famous tatars" are really famous? I think we should include the names based on the amount of people who are aware of a particular person. JackofDiamonds1 (talk) 21:10, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Could anyone please find the free pictures of Marat Basharov and Roustam Tariko? Thanks. JackofDiamonds1 (talk) 20:55, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Famous Tatars 

message: I have written this in his talk page, but received no response. So dropping it here as well.
Sources describe Tatars like this:
I suggest you stop your attempt at WP:OR against the uniform position of perfectly reliable sources on this matter.
If I don't receive a response here in a few days (let's say a week at most), I'm going to restore the earlier version of the opening sentence. --Mttll (talk) 13:48, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  To JackofDiamonds1 

message: I suggest that we establish and develop 3 large groups, namely Volga Tatars, Crimean Tatars and Lipka Tatars, who have developed separately from each other. JackofDiamonds1 (talk) 23:58, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classification 

message: Dear Sir,
Please add to the list of world famous Tatar people following individuals as their ethnic nationalities is Tatar: 
1) Rudolf_Nureyev (ballet dancer) -   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Nureyev
2) Alina Maratovna Kabaeva (gymnastic)  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alina_Kabaeva
3) Gata Kamsky  (Chess champion)  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gata_Kamsky 
4) Alsu Safina/Abramova ( singer)
 It is very simple 
The Tartars are Turkic language tribes ,living nearby historic Mongols . They killed Chengis'father and later have been forced to vassalisation by Mongols . 
Tatarstan in Russia has nothing to do with them . The place was Finnic-Ugric and called Volga-Bulgaria . So General population was Finnic ,
In the early times of Mongol invasion they together with some Turkic tribes defeated Mongols at river Belaya(river Belaya has Indo-
Iranic-Aryan name Kama means the god of sensitivity in Indo-Aryan sanskrit from where Kama-sutra.) in 1240  .
The Mongols genosided 4/5 population in Volga-Bulgaria and granted the territory to some of their allied Turkic tribes. The remaining Finno-Ugric took Islam and accepted Turkic tongue ,though there are lot of blonde Finnic people in that region .
Edelfred (talk) 21:50, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copied Request 

message: Qasim Khanate has slightly different history. It existed since 1452. Bests, Ali-al-Bakuvi (talk) 07:47, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I added one information based on sources; it is one of the main theories where "Tatar" words comes from. In Orkhon inscriptions the name of "Thirty Tatar" confederation is stated a lot of times. We have to take this fact into consideration. Bests, Ali-al-Bakuvi (talk) 14:43, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: And one more point: During Russian Empire the Central Asian Turkic people were not called "Tatars". There is no source for it. Kazakhs, Karakalpaks (who considered to be a part of Kazakhs then) and Kyrgyz people were called "Kirgiz-Kaysak", and the others as they are called now. Bests, Ali-al-Bakuvi (talk) 15:46, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

text: I fully agree; the reason that I mentioned the Tatar confederation in the article to show it was endonym before Mongol invasion and before the West and East Slavs started to name all Turkic peoples with whom they contacted as Tatars. Actually, I am also for transferring most of the detailed info about current groups to the specified articles and leave here only short introductions. Most of the groups are already so. But Volga, Crimea, etc. Tatars still have large info here, whereas special articles exist. Bests, Ali-al-Bakuvi (talk) 16:52, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corrections 

message: Actually I don't find correct comparing Tatars with Americans. Because various Tatar groups - Crimean Tatars, Volga Tatars and Siberian Tatars are different people, with different traditions, different language, different history and different self-consciousness as ethnic groups (no one refuses that they are related). 
OK, in official Volga Tatar historiography Siberian Tatars are considered as a sub-group of them, although their language is not mutually intelligible and they have different ethnogenesis history. Crimean Tatars are related to both groups very distantly. They are not even related with common geography or a country (if we do not take into consideration the latest crisis). It is like to collect Turkmen people, Iraqi Turkmens, Syrian Turkmens, Terekeme and Yörüks under one article and try to introduce an infobox for them. These peoples are more related to each other than different Tatar groups. 
We intend to transfer all detailed info to appropriate specific articles and leave here only common information, which can give general idea about the origins and current usage of the term "Tatar".
So I would want to come for a consensus in order to prevent an edit war. Your offers, ideas, opinion? Bests, Ali-al-Bakuvi (talk) 11:58, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox 

message: I am uncertain whether or not this is the result of having been edited by a number of non-native English speakers with various political/ethnic agendas, or if it is only because it has suffered from a stream of drive-by edits, but the fact that this article's lead paragraph began with the sentence "Mishary were dominant in the Tatar state and originate from the Golden Horde" ([in]complete with no wikilinks to anything, see here) strikes me as evidence that this article is floundering.  More evidence of this: "The largest group by far that the Russians have called 'Tatars' are the Volga Tatars" (what is this "by far" supposed to mean??), This whole paragraph:
"the Russo-Kazan Wars lasted for the best part of a century" (which should have been written "...better part of a century" if it is going to be written so vaguely at all, which I think is a bad idea), "The Persian word is first recorded in the 13th century in reference to the hordes of Genghis Khan and is of unknown origin, according to OED 'said to be' ultimately from tata, a name of the Mongols for themselves. The Arabic word for Tatars is تتار. Tatars themselves wrote their name as تاتار or طاطار. The Chinese term for Tatars was dada 韃靼, especially after the end of the Yuan period (14th century), but also recorded as a term for Mongolian-speaking peoples of the northern steppes during the Tang period (8th century)"  (which really seems like a stream of borderline useless info for most Wikipedia readers), the list of various "Tatar" ethnic groups (which is given in the article with no context for the reader), the weird attempt to group the language families (which loses me utterly and doesn't even seem to include consistent links to other relevant Wikipedia articles, e.g., Kipchak-Cuman language families), and the strange and vague references to slavery and things like "The raids were an important drain of the human and economic resources of both countries" (really?  the raids were an important drain?  And if they had not happened then other important things would not have happened??) which just begins to scratch the surface of what is wrong with this article.  I don't want to sound like I am just being a dick, but this article reads like it has gone pretty far off kilter, to the point that I don't even feel motivated to try to fix it (at least, not beyond what I have just done to the lead paragraph, which I am pretty sure someone is going to come along and casually undo soon, restoring the sentence about someone named "Mishary" to the introductory sentence, which will be idiotic, but there you have it).  If every attempt to make this article read like a real encyclopedia article is going to be reverted and re-edited by editors with non-encyclopedia agendas who aren't paying attention to what they are doing, then the "Tatars" are going to remain one of Wikipedia's stagnant informational backwaters.  Which is a shame.  As someone with absolutely no political agenda on this point, I shake my head and walk away.  Let me know when the swamp is finally drained (...sorry for being a dick, though).  KDS4444Talk 14:06, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I have to agree with your assessment. I read the lede twice and it makes my head swim. I have no idea what it is trying to say. The main problem seems to be that it is not clear whether it is talking about the various definitions/uses of "Tartar" as a word, or talking about any one of those definitions. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. This means that if a word has multiple meanings, we create an article for each definition and add a disambiguation page to send the user to the definition they are interested in. Ashmoo (talk) 13:33, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article continues to be problematic 

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message: There is an edit war brewing in the Infobox over the religions practiced by Tatars. Apparently, a Russian source does not recognize certain religions, while everyculture.com recognizes more religions. A brand new IP editor is relentlessly pushing the material from the Russian source, to which I strongly object. Please keep an eye on this.--Quisqualis (talk) 19:24, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit war in progress 

message: This edit has been reverted three times by two editors, and unreverted three times by the "new" IP SPA editor. No cogent edit summary, many changes, and no sources cited, yet this editor persists and, I believe, is headed for a block. Would anyone like to revert the edit cited above? This editor has requested Talk page discussion, but, given the facts above, what can be discussed? Thanks to all interested editors.--Quisqualis (talk) 00:04, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yet another partisan edit war in progress (new IP SPA) 

message: "Current day Tatars comprise a range of physical appearances, from Mongoloid to Caucasoid." from the last paragraph of the first section. 
From Wikipedia; "[Mongoloid] is one of the outdated three races proposed by Georges Cuvier in the 18th century, the other two groups being Caucasoid and Negroid. ... It is today not widely used by anthropologists as its validity and usefulness in classification is considered highly questionable."
Why would this be included? JobAur (talk) 05:59, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I've warned the user that keeps re-adding it a couple of times, and they came back with a source that's literally from the year 1852 to claim that the Tatar people are biologically Mongoloids. I've since issued a final warning and if they ignore it again I'll have to see if we can protect the article from this absurdly outdated vandalism. Brendon the Wizard ✉️ ✨ 23:00, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uncitated racism 

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message: The modern Tatars are not descended from the ancient Tatars, according to "The Secret Mongolian History", the ancient Tatars exposed to total annihilation by the Mongols in the beginnings of Genghis Khan's campaigns, the ancient Tatars were not a Turkic people unlike the modern Tatars.
 
The modern Tatars are mix of Qipchaq Turks and Mongols.
2A00:C281:4E8:A800:E5A1:EF30:33E8:4A40 (talk) 06:56, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Source? Beshogur (talk) 13:12, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:ORIGINALRESEARCH. --► Sincerely: SolaVirum 14:22, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The modern Tatars are not descended from the ancient Tatars 

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I added missing sources, and you just one-click reverted everything with no proper explanation. You are not alone here. Learn to work respecting the work of others. You replaced my sources with your sources and changed numbers. Why?--Renat (talk) 20:44, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unexplained revert 

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thread_title:  Turkish magazine article 

message: Uygur and Uzbek languages are closest languages to Tatar language: https://mytashkent.uz/2020/12/17/rodstvennye-yazyki-uzbekskomu/. Tatars in Uzbekistan have no any problems with Uzbeks in understanding each other when they speak in their native languages in conversations. Genetic proximities of Tatar language with Uzbek and Uygur languages are 13.4 and 9.7, respectively. These results can be found from this link: http://elinguistics.net/Compare_Languages.aspx. Generation Stream (talk) 19:18, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Closest languages to Tatar language 

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thread_title:  Page protected 

message: Unknown card without data - " " Contemporary distribution of Kipchak languages:  Kipchak–Bolgar " "
P.S. - Please explain where this nonsense comes from? What else is Kipchak-Bolgarian? More than one world-renowned scientist does not describe such a phenomenon. This is pure fiction. If we are talking about the Volga Bulgars, then they spoke the Oghur R-language (rhotacism) instead of the Kipchak Z-language, which is recognized by all scientists of the world. I see this as a forgery and distortion of facts. Volga Bulgar language and Chuvash language they clarify the situation more clearly. We are witnessing pure forgery and falsification here.
The author of this fairy tale does not know the elementary basics of how Oghures, Oghuzes and Kipchaks differ. Nogai Kazanlary (talk) 20:25, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fake 

message: The history of Tatar Bulgarism is the basis of the ideology of the KGB of the USSR according to the political program.
the political machine of the USSR, in order to take away the merits of the Tatar (Kipchak) conquerors, broke history and rewrote the era of the Golden Horde, creating a newly minted Tatar "Bulgarism", which was approved in Kazan at the behest of the Soviet Kremlin from Moscow for political purposes. It was necessary to make the Tatars historically friendly to Russians and Russia, and not alien conquerors collecting tribute for 300 years, and it was also impossible to make them the ancestors of the Cumans, Polovtsians and Pechenegs, who often fought with Russia. The oil was added by the fact that the eviction of the Crimean Tatars began, a good political reason was needed to explain why the Volga Tatars were not being evicted, but only the Crimean Ones, and here the trick about the census of history was born.
A particularly active attempt to rethink Tatar history and through this to split the unity of the Tatars as a nation was made in the 1940s under Stalin, when after the infamous resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) of August 9, 1944, and especially after the scientific session on the origin of the Tatar people (April 25-26, 1946), when this concept was thoroughly edited and scientifically developed. The Bulgar period was recognized as the most important period of Tatar history, and the history of the Golden Horde began to be regarded as insignificant and "external" to Tatar history, in most Soviet historical works direct and immediate continuity between Bulgars and Tatars began to be established. However, the main problem was not in the fact of such identification, but in the violent party-administrative methods of its approval. Later, from the period of the "thaw" (late 1950s) to the "perestroika" (late 1980s), the Bulgarian concept, which enjoyed official support and was actively developed in Soviet historiography, acquired the form of a scientific concept and became the basis for writing history textbooks for schools and universities, basic scientific works.
Let's pay attention to the statement of V.D. Dimitriev (Honorary director of the historical and Cultural Foundation "Volga Bulgaria". In the article "Historiography of the ethnogenesis of the Chuvash people", the professor wrote: "In the post-war years, two scientific sessions considered the question of the origin of the Chuvash people. At the scientific session on the origin of the Kazan Tatars (April 25-26, 1946), held by the Department of History and Philosophy of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Kazan Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the speakers made biased reports in order to "prove" the decision taken in advance by the leadership of the Institute of Language, Literature and History Kazan branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences "decision" on the origin of Tatars from Volga Bulgarians. In published back in 1945 the brief prospectus of "Essays on the History of Tatarstan" indicated that the authors sought to proceed from the instructions made in the resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) "On the state and measures to improve mass-political and ideological work in the Tatar Party organization"
There is not a single fact up to the 20th century where it would be said about the Bulgarian origin of the modern Kazan Tatars.
The movement arose immediately after the infamous "Resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) "On the state and measures to improve mass-political and ideological work in the Tatar and Bashkir Party organizations" of August 9, 1944. After which it was decided to share the history of the Volga Bulgars jointly with the Kazan Tatars, where the concept was imposed that the ancestors of the Chuvash are the Suvar, and the ancestors of the Tatars are the Bulgars.
In the USSR, the study of the history of the Golden Horde became a “nationalist mistake.” In order to prevent the processes of national revival in Tatarstan from unfolding, the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) began to prepare materials for a pogrom resolution. Even before the war, it was decided to create a research institute in Kazan for a comprehensive study of the problems of the history and culture of the Tatar people. In 1939, the Tatar Research Institute of Language, Literature and History was established, there was not a single candidate of sciences for it. Taking advantage of this, historians and literary critics are actively starting to create new works. Despite the war and the lack of personnel, historians of Kazan (N.F.Kalinin, H.G. Gimadi) together with scientists evacuated from Moscow (B.D. Grekov, S.V. Bakhrushin, L.V. Cherepnin) prepared "Essays on the history of the TASSR", which emphasized the local Bulgar basis of the Tatar people, criticized the aggressive policy of the Mongols and khans of the Golden Horde.
It all started with the folklorist N. Isanbet who published a summary text of the Tatar epic about "Idegey" with his comments, which gave a vivid characterization of the personality of Idegey and noted the huge contribution of the Ulus of Jochi (Golden Horde) to the history and culture of the Tatar people. They believed that measures to rewrite history were the best way to nurture and strengthen the friendship of peoples, and the dastan about the Idea was a kind of manifesto of nationalist agents in Tatarstan that should be banned. The plays "Zhiran-Chichen", "Alchynchech", "Chur Zagitov" were sharply criticized... The programs of universities and secondary schools in history and literature have also been revised, from which references to the epic and the Golden Horde have been removed. The epic "Idegey" is generally permeated with "ideas of pan-Turkism and nationalism."
They sharply oppose "the popularization of Idegey as a hero of the Tatar people and gives a whole history, noting in conclusion that he "like Mamai, like Toktamysh, sought to restore the former power of the Golden Horde by raids on the Russian land." 1945, where the preparation of a university history textbook is highlighted among the main problems. The main guidelines and targets of this "history" were defined quite clearly in the resolutions: a ban on studying the Ulus of Jochi in Tatarstan (and in general on mentioning this state and its cultural achievements in a positive sense).
At the special bureau of the regional Committee of the CPSU (b), after a long and thorough investigation of the causes that led to the appearance of such "ideological sabotage", on September 6, 1944, a resolution was adopted "On the work and mistakes of the Tatar Research Institute of Language, Literature and History". The document itself is so eloquent and odious that it was, until recently, top secret and, despite constant mentions, was never quoted. And only recently it became possible to look into its secrets. It explicitly and unambiguously states that "the grossest mistake of the institute is the complete identification of the history of the Golden Horde with the history of the modern Tatar people."
The aim of this frenzied campaign was to overthrow Idegey from the "pedestal of history", and after him a whole layer of Tatar history. Overnight, the Jochi Ulus, its population, culture and statesmen sank into oblivion, and the Tatars became Bulgars. At the same time, a new reality of history like Tatar Bulgarism and Chuvash Suvarism is taking root in newspapers, magazines and books.
Historians understood the essence and depth of the problem, if you give the history of the Bulgars to the Tatars, then where to put the Chuvash side by side? Here it was decided to make the Chuvash descendants of the Suvar who are described in the "Notes of Ibn Fadlan".
It was decided to fill the gaping gap formed after the ban on the history of the Jochi Ulus with "local Bulgarian roots". This provision was consolidated by the so-called "scientific session on the origin of the Kazan Tatars" (April 25-26, 1946), held jointly by the Department of History and Philosophy of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Kazan Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. It heard reports and speeches by experts in history, archeology, Turkology and anthropology, who unanimously proposed that modern Tatars should henceforth be considered descendants of the Volga Bulgars, and the Jochi Ulus should be considered as a purely external phenomenon for the ethnic history of the Tatar people.it was not a line of science, but was a conjunctural and definite line of party ideology, slightly covered with a scientific flair. Nogai Kazanlary (talk) 22:14, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The policy of the KGB of the USSR and the rewriting of history 

message: During the collapse of the USSR, there were people who wanted to separate Tatarstan from Russia, in that era, Islamist sentiments in society began to flourish, after a long Soviet atheism.  The authors and ideologists had to politically unite all Tatars under a single political and religious community. They started by rewriting history, since according to Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, Volga Bulgaria was one of the first to officially adopt Islam, so this is a good reason for ideological inspiration. To make the remains of the Bulgarian settlement a spiritual mecca of Islam in the Volga-Ural region.  They say that we Tatars were the first to convert to Islam in Russia. Although in fact the remains of buildings in Bolgar are 14th century and were built by the Nogai Horde and Bashkirs and the city was then called Ibrahim (Bryakhim). Now Kazan propaganda is still rocking the theme of the center of Islam in Russia, this city.
Jagfar Tarikhy (rus. Джагфар Тарикы)
"Jagfar Tarikhy" ("The History of Jagfar") is a fake or fictitious historical source, introduced into circulation as a set of Bulgarian chronicles in the 1990s by a history teacher, an active participant in the Bulgarian club "Bulgar—al-Jadid" F. G.-H. Nurutdinov. The entire background of the text is known only from his words. The text exists only in Russian as a "translation from the lost original" in the form of lists made by Nurutdinov. There is no historical information about the presence of original texts. Historians assess the vault as a modern forgery.
One of the main works of Tatar Bulgarism "Jagfar Tarikhy" by almost all academic researchers (Y. Shamiloglu, S. Tsviklinski, V. Shnirelman, Turkologists A. Rona-Tash and O. Pritsak, literary critics N. Yuzeev and M. Akhmetzyanov, archaeologist A. Khalikov, source scientists M. Usmanov and ethnologists D. Iskhakov and I. Izmailov) is recognized as a fake, is not translations from the "Bulgarian" language, but written by a not very competent Russian-speaking author at the end of the XXI century. It has blatant contradictions with the facts of history and even common sense.
Jagfar Tarikhy", "Shan kyzy dastany" and "Baraj dastany" - At the next round table held in February 2011, it was reported that the answers of specialists received to the request confirm that they are fake and its text cannot be used. Issued for a lost set of Bulgarian chronicles of the XVII century (claimed as a translation from the lost original).
Since the originals of the chronicles and their lists made in the XIX century are missing, and the location of the original translation and presentation of the lists into Russian made in the 1920s and 1930s is unknown, many academic researchers (Y. Shamiloglu, O. Pritsak, S. Tsviklinski, V. Shnirelman, D. Iskhakov, I. Izmailov) currently recognize this work is a forgery of the 2nd half of the XX century[9].
Opinion of Professor-Turkologist Yulai Shamiloglu:
"After a brief analysis of the main problems of the presented text, without any doubt, we can say that this work is a fictional document of the XX century, "the invention of tradition." A complete refutation of it will require a comment equal in size to the original. But I can't even imagine that any of the historians or Turkologists will spend their time on this. Nevertheless, I found an interesting parallel between the earlier "Bulgarian" sources of the XVIII—XIX centuries and this work of the XX century"
Supporters of the authenticity of "Jagfar Tarikhy" are only ethnic Tatars:
Academician M. A. Usmanov
Professor I. A. Gilyazov; Nogai Kazanlary (talk) 22:37, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  A lot of lies and separatism. 

message: Moscow, June 1, 2012, 20:34 — IA Regnum. The millennial anniversary of Kazan, celebrated with great fanfare in 2005, became the most successful "historical and economic project" of the Tatarstan authorities - more than 80 billion rubles were spent during its preparation. However, some Kazan residents are sure that apart from the development of huge amounts of money, there is no historical basis for the anniversary. This point of view is shared by Alexander Ovchinnikov, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Humanities of Kazan National Research Technological University.
IA REGNUM: As you know, Tatarstan tried to celebrate the round date until 2005. Many Kazan residents still have badges at home, issued for the 800th anniversary of the city.
Yes, indeed, in 1977, in the then Tatar ASSR, they tried to celebrate the 800th anniversary of Kazan. The occurrence of this date has its own background. First of all, already in the 1960s there was a confrontation between Kazan researchers and Moscow scientists; until that time there was a practice of curating Kazan colleagues by Moscow historians. However, since the 1960s, the Tatar historian Alfred Khalikov (1929-1994), who was supported by local party bodies in the person of the first secretary of the Tatar Regional Committee of the CPSU Fikrat Tabeev, entered into a discussion with the Moscow scientist Alexei Smirnov (1899-1974) on the issue of determining the pre-Mongolian capital of Volga Bulgaria.
Khalikov proved to Smirnov that the main city was Bilyar with its area of about 800 hectares, and not the small port of Bolgar. In the central publications, Khalikov was very much criticized, pointing to stretch marks, dubious comparisons. The party officials of Soviet Tatarstan, on the contrary, supported him, since Khalikov was "his own", Kazan, and Smirnov was from Moscow (he worked at the Institute of Archaeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences). However, the authority and knowledge of the Moscow scientist, independent of the local, by that time already emerging ethnocratic elite, restrained the Kazan archaeologist.
In March, the elderly Smirnov died in 1974, and in April of the same year, Khalikov, speaking at Kazan University, said that Kazan was probably 800 years old: "The excavations carried out show this!". Previously, this point of view has not even been discussed anywhere. The fact is that the year 1177, as the date of the foundation of Kazan, is mentioned in the "Kazan Chronicler". Researchers who analyzed this work of art (written in 1564-1566 by a former Russian prisoner who was in Khan's captivity until 1552) noted that this date was inserted much later.
In the central scientific publications, Khalikov was criticized for the idea of the 800th anniversary of Kazan, one of the leading experts on the historical geography of the Golden Horde, the Moscow historian Vadim Egorov, spoke out against him. In 1975, in the scientific journal "Soviet Archeology", he wrote an article "On the time of the emergence of Kazan", in which he convincingly refuted Khalikov's version. Vadim Leonidovich was inclined to believe that Kazan was founded at the end of the 14th century (the materials of the Russian chronicles confirmed this).
In Kazan, everyone immediately began to condemn the "Moscow" Vadim Egorov and support "their" Khalikov. In the "Scientific Notes of the Kazan Pedagogical Institute" eight (!) articles appeared at once, proving the groundlessness of Egorov's conclusions. These articles were written by people who were generally far from archaeology. Khalikov, on the other hand, counted on the fact that he would not meet resistance in this matter, since the main opponent, Alexey Smirnov, whose professionalism and scientific competence did not cause anyone doubts, was no longer alive. He also enlisted the support of his good friend, the first secretary of the Tatar Regional Committee of the CPSU, Fikrat Tabeev.
IA REGNUM: Didn't Moscow agree?
Absolutely not. Moscow researchers at a meeting at the USSR Academy of Sciences proved that the 800th anniversary of Kazan is impossible. Facts began to emerge that students of Kazan universities, used as interns at archaeological excavations, were forced to throw pieces of ceramics of the 12th century into the excavations. Because of this, a big scandal broke out, and one of the participants of the meeting said that the 800th anniversary of Kazan has nothing to do with science, and it's best not to talk about it.
IA REGNUM: The idea failed?
It was a big blow to Khalikov. Tabeev, in turn, decided not to quarrel with Moscow, and as a result, the point of view that Kazan is 800 years old was buried. No one even shook hands with Alfred Khalikov after this scandal at the Institute of Archaeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1986, Khalikov again raised the question of resuming research that would confirm the 800th anniversary of the city, but this point of view was unpopular at that time. In 1993-1995, when the situation in Russia was far from stable, and sovereignty "flourished" in Tatarstan, the question of the age of Kazan was raised again. Many of the Tatar historians began to say that it would be possible to celebrate the 825th anniversary of the city in 2002.
IA REGNUM: Where did the idea of the millennium of Kazan come from?
After Khalikov's death in 1994, excavations in the Kazan Kremlin resumed, new material appeared. In one of his publications in 1995, Kazan archaeologist Fayaz Khuzin stated that an early pre-Mongol layer was found on the territory of the Kremlin, which dates back to the end of the 10th - beginning of the 11th centuries. Khuzin made an assumption that it was some small Bulgarian settlement that was destroyed. And all archaeologists all over the world know that the main criterion for determining the age of any city is the continuity of its development.
On the territory of the Kremlin and nearby you can find finds of the Mesolithic era, but no one will claim that the city is 10,000 years old. In any case, I hope that none of the local historians will think of it... Then an unexpected event occurs: the leadership of the Institute of Language and Literature and History of the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan (at that time, the Institute of History - the center for inventing local history - had not yet been allocated from its composition) in the person of its director, academician Mirfatikh Zakiyev and the head of the Department of Archeology of Kazan University Azgar Mukhamadiev declare that Kazan may be 1000 years old. However, academician Zakiyev immediately said that the city was founded by some Turkic tribe Kashans, but no one listened to him.
But the point of view of Azgar Mukhamadiev, who relied on the results of the excavations of Fayaz Khuzin, gave rise to the appeal of Kazan historians to the authorities with the version of the 1000th anniversary of Kazan, which found full support there. The first to support this idea was the Mayor of Kazan, Kamil Iskhakov, who instructed local historians to prove or refute this point of view. Having felt the opportunity to get good bonuses on this, the latter, of course, did not refute anything.
Immediately, a command was given to all "their" archaeologists to prove the 1000th anniversary. Following Kamil Iskhakov, Mintimer Shaimiev learned about the "discovery", who liked this idea very much, especially against the background of the celebration of the 850th anniversary of Moscow in 1998. Here you are not some eight centuries old, but as many as 1000 years, which is especially nice: It turns out that we are older than Moscow...
IA REGNUM: What about the "destroyed Bulgarian settlement"?
If at first Fayaz Khuzin claimed that the Bulgarian settlement arose and was destroyed, now he began to prove the exact opposite: it was not destroyed. On the contrary, it gradually developed, then it was proved that the settlement was a city, and not some kind of village. And suddenly, finds began to appear in the excavations, saying that the city is 1000 years old: beads, ceramics, buckles, and finally coins, among which Czech, dated 1005 (made of lead - approx. IA REGNUM).
By the way, the name of Ayrat Sitdikov almost does not appear in public discourse. But it was on his shoulders that the "technical side" of the millennium justification lay. Now he is the chief archaeologist in Tatarstan, holds several major administrative posts at the same time, it is he who organizes the "archaeological component" of the Vozrozhdenie Foundation (head of the Alfred Khalikov National Center for Archaeological Research of the ANT Institute of History and at the same time head of the Department of Archaeology of Kazan Federal University - approx. IA REGNUM). Unlike Fayaz Khuzin, he does not "work for the public" much, but archaeological works in Kazan, Bolgar and Sviyazhsk and the consequences of them should be associated with his name.
IA REGNUM: Do you think that the artifacts could have been planted in the excavation?
It is impossible to answer this unequivocally, but given the experience of the evidence base of the 800th anniversary of Kazan, and the eagerness with which local archaeologists began to look for confirmation of the millennial date, it cannot be denied. If we carefully analyze the officially found things, it turns out that Kazan is not 1000 years old, but 1100 or 1200. However, it is known that in the 8-9 centuries the Bulgars did not have permanent settlements at all, especially cities.
The laws of logic force us to assume that someone who does not know the archaeological material very well used the early Bulgarian things found in other places to "antiquate" Kazan, but, to put it mildly, overdid it. The main argument against the millennial history of the city is the presence of Iske-Kazan (Old Kazan), a settlement of the 13th-16th centuries, located 45 km from Kazan near the village of Kamaevo in the Vysokogorsky district of Tatarstan. If what we call the Old Kazan appeared in the 13th century, then how could the New Kazan (Kazan Kremlin) appear in the 11th century?
IA REGNUM: Was one of the local historians outraged?
To the credit of the Tatar historical science, such people were and are, even in the minority. Ravil Fakhrutdinov at the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan is perhaps the only Tatar historian who denies the 1000th anniversary of Kazan (the scientist supports the version about Iska-Kazan as an earlier settlement than New Kazan). But as soon as he doubted this date, a real harassment began against him. In 2007, there was even an attempt to institute a criminal case on the charge fashionable among today's archaeological authorities of Kazan - "black archeology". Nogai Kazanlary (talk) 23:06, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kazan historian: "The 1000th anniversary of Kazan" has nothing to do with historical reality" 

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13 октября 2019 14:19
In December 2019, it will be two years since the Kazan online publication "Business Online" ("BO") from TatMedia declared a "hybrid war" against Russia. Now a kind of "wunderwaffe" is being distributed among the resources of Tatar nationalists — an interview for the same "BO" "outstanding Tatar philologist" Marcel Akhmetzyanov, head of the Department of ancient Manuscripts of the Institute of Language, Literature and History (IYALI) of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan (AS RT).
The title of the interview is also given in a completely extremist way: "After the capture of Kazan, Ivan the Terrible baptized the Tatars by force, before that there were no kryashens." With a match for this type of weapon ... sorry, the interviewee, as usual, is not good.
Marcel Ibrahimovich Akhmetzyanov, "the chief philologist of the Tatar language of the republic" and a double Russophobe in combination, is 81 years old. The phrases in the interview are just a collection of notes from the Soviet humorous column "You can't think of it on purpose."
"Our heritage has been destroyed. Up to the XIX century, Tatars were forbidden to print books, the go-ahead for the publication of newspapers was given only at the beginning of the XX century, after the 1905 revolution. Everything was controlled by censorship and the gendarmerie," Akhmetzyanov told BO.
Let it be known to the aksakal that the first printed books in the Tatar language, typed in Arabic script, appeared in Russia in the first quarter of the XVIII century. The initiative belonged... to the tsarist authorities. During the Persian campaign, Emperor Peter I designated the Muslim-populated Caspian coast of the North Caucasus as a sphere of Russia's geopolitical influence. St. Petersburg chose the Muslim clergy from the Volga Tatars — the "old-timers of the empire" - as the conductors of Russia's influence. Tatar printing, which briefly subsided during the palace coups, flourished in the reign of Catherine II. In 1778, a textbook of the Tatar language by Sagid Khalafin, a full-time translator from the Eastern languages of the Kazan Admiralty, was published in the printing house of Moscow University. Russian publishers coordinated the textbook with Tatar imams. The Tatar ulem (Muslim scholar) Mullah Ibrahim Usman edited the first edition of the Koran in Russia, printed in 1787 in the St. Petersburg printing house of Schnorr. Several copies of this edition were purchased by Catherine II. In 1800, Emperor Paul I granted the request of the Tatars from the Volga provinces, who asked to help them with the supply of books, and transferred the printing house of Schnorr to the ownership of the Kazan Gymnasium.
The works of very many Tatar theologians of the XVIII—XIX centuries have been preserved to this day in handwritten lists, and not in printed form. But the reason for this is not the cultural genocide of the Tatars in tsarist Russia, as Akhmetzyanov claims, but the socio—cultural atmosphere in the Tatar environment. Tatar theologians seriously argued whether it was possible for a Muslim to sew and wear clothes made of leather, made according to the Russian custom, according to the canons of Islam. A book is a much more important thing for the salvation of a Muslim's soul than clothes. There was no consensus among Tatar Muslim scholars at that time about whether it was possible to give books on Islam to the Russian press. For this reason, theological treatises were created and copied, as in the Middle Ages, on long handwritten scrolls. It should also be taken into account: not all the leading Tatar theologians were loyal to the vertical of Islam created under Catherine II with centralized muftiats, created according to the Ottoman type. For example, the theologian Abdurahim Bulgari, who died in the early XIX century, a native of the village of Old Utyamysh, who forbade Tatars to drink tea and adopt Russian customs, was a participant in the Muslim rebellion against the tsarist authorities in his youth and even sat in prison. It should be recalled how the rebel imams ended up in tsarist prisons. The tsarist gendarmes and judges could not deprive such an imam of freedom by their own power alone. Evidence was needed from the accused's tribesmen.
Bulgari, a rebel by nature, did not find a place for himself in the corridor of opportunities created by the tsarist authorities for Tatar Muslims, where the imam of a mosque in a city or a large village had the right to hereditary nobility, and the rest of the imams and muezzins had the right to personal. This "genocidal" and "Tatarophobic" policy of St. Petersburg also consisted in the fact that the imams of the North Caucasus were not granted this right. The tsarist administration, which did not trust Muslims from the Caucasus, deliberately inspired the Tatars that they, as "old—timers of the empire", were elder brothers for co-religionists from the Caucasus, as well as the steppes of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Printed books and newspapers (as well as the theater) appeared among the Tatars at the end of the XIX century ... not by royal grace. And as a result of the spread of Jadidism (renovationism) — the educational ideas of the Crimean Tatar educator Ismail Gasprinsky and his students, among whom was the great Tatar poet Gabdulla Tukai. Conservative Tatars, accustomed to living according to the precepts of their ancestors, did not like Jadidism until 1917. Which is generally fine. Not all Russian Orthodox subjects at that time considered it a godly thing to go to the theater and read newspapers. The intervention or non-interference of the tsarist administration played no role here.
The spread of Jadidism among the Turkic peoples of the Russian Empire occurred during the period when Europe entered the era of the "awakening of nations". The Tatars of the Volga region began to realize themselves as a secular political nation in the same era when the Young Turks movement gained popularity in the Ottoman Empire. In the wake of the construction of Tatar identity among the Muslims of the Kazan province in the Volga region, the process of spontaneous forced Tatarization through Islam of the historically non—Muslim peoples of the region - Votyaks (Udmurts), Cheremis (Mari), Chuvash began… And especially kryashen. The most intensive "recruitment" of Kryashens into Tatars through the adoption of Islam took place in places where Kryashen villages were surrounded by Tatar settlements.
As the enlightener Kryashen orientalist Nikolai Ilminsky wrote to the chief prosecutor of the Holy Synod Konstantin Pobedonostsev, the role of conductors of forced Tatarization was assumed by the "pillar of the empire" - the Tatar nobility, the eminent merchants, the Tatar intelligentsia who studied at Russian universities. In this regard, the nobility and merchants influenced the Muslim clergy of the Volga region through bribes, intrigues, family ties, etc., and intellectuals created a certain social background.
Imams and muftis, in turn, "gently pressed" on the tsarist administration. And she often gave up. It is also important that by the middle — end of the XIX century in the Volga region, nationally oriented Tatars were part of the administrative vertical and crushed all those who disagreed with the administrative resource.
Let's add to this that by the end of the XIX — beginning of the XX century, the liberal Russian press branded all Orthodox conservative priests and bishops as "obscurantists", and the entire Russian-speaking "progressive" public in Moscow and St. Petersburg joined the opinion of the newspaper. The Orthodox clergy of the Volga region, who tried to stop the expansion of the violent Islamization of non-Muslim peoples of the region, got especially from the newspapermen. "Free-thinking" liberals equally mocked both Orthodoxy and Islam; as Ilminsky wrote, "they are like Christ, like Muhammad, everything is one." But for the agents of Islamization, which would later develop into pan—Turkism, the liberal media were allies — from the series "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
And what does the "great Tatar scientist" Marcel Ibrahimovich Akhmetzyanov tell us about this?
"After the capture of Kazan, Ivan the Terrible baptized the Tatars by force, before that there were no kryashens. This process was especially intensified in the XVII—XVIII centuries, but the Tatars put up a strong resistance. In the XIX century, the process began to decline, missionaries with excellent knowledge of Tatar, Arabic, and the Koran joined. They tried to influence with words, persuasion, unobtrusive criticism of the basic tenets of Islam, but all this was unsuccessful. Goals and objectives have changed. A massive process of conversion to Islam began, it was necessary to preserve at least some of the baptized Tatars. Ilminsky and other missionaries realized that it was best to do this through their native language, so they began to translate Christian religious literature into Tatar, and developed a special alphabet based on the Russian Cyrillic alphabet. It was necessary to break the connection with the Muslim world," Akhmetzyanov told Business Online.
What are you saying, Marcel Ibrahimovic! Ilminsky, studying the life of ordinary Tatars in the outback, finds in their views more pagan prejudices than Islamic customs. Studying the history of the Kazan Khanate, Ilminsky concludes: the Islamization of Tatar society began just after the capture of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible, and before that only the local nobility followed Islam, and even then superficially. Many leading Tatar theologians of the XVIII—XIX centuries complained about the superficial, pagan attitude of their fellow tribesmen to Islam. In the XIX century, the Kryashens did not expel Tatars from their homes in the Volga region with the help of gendarmes, but just the Kryashen Tatars. The ringleaders of the pogroms, as a rule, were kryashen, who, under the influence of some reasons, converted to Islam. A very familiar picture for modern Tatarstan…
Since Akhmetzyanov is such a leading expert on the Kryashen language, let him compare the Kryashen language in the XIX century and the Old Tatar language. Kryashen of that time would have understood Christian literature in Tatar from the fifth to the tenth and would not have read it. In the modern Tatar language, which was formed already during the Soviet era, there are Farsiisms and Arabisms, which are not present in the Kryashen language. And there were much more Arabisms and Farsiisms in the Old Tatar language. The difference between Kryashens and Tatars is even more pronounced in everyday life. By the end of the XIX century, the Kryashens wore clothes different from the Tatars, close to Russian, there were no male and female halves in their houses, like the Tatars, there were poles in the huts, which the Tatars never had. These everyday facts speak most eloquently about the Kryashens as an original and distinct ethnic group from the Tatars. Nogai Kazanlary (talk) 23:14, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The "War of the Kazan Kremlin" against Russia: Tatar philology was used 

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thread_title:  Link from here to the Baraba Tatar page?