Welcome to Tatarstan.

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Welcome to Tatarstan.

Welcome to Tatarstan
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Tatarstan

• The Republic of Tatarstan is a subject of the
  Russian Federation. The Declaration of State
  sovereignty of the Republic was signed on the 30
  th of August, 1990. The names republic of
  Tatarstan and Tatarstan are equivalent

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Languages

• The official languages are Tatar and Russian

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Location

• Tatarstan is one of the largest socio -
  economic, scientific and political centres of the
  Volga Region. It is located at the centre of the
  Russian Federation. It connects East and West,
  North and South of the country

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Regions

• Tatarstan borders on the Republic of
  Bashkortostan, Chuvashia, Mari El, Udmurtia and
  on the region of Russia Samara, Ulianovsk, Kirov
  and Orenburg. Tatarstan has no borders with
  foreign states

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Resources.

• Its area is more than 67 thousand square
  kilometers. It is as big as Ireland, Sri Lanka,
  Lithuania. Tatarstan is rich in oil. The most
  well known oil fields are Romashkinskoye, Novo
  Velkhovskoye, Pervomaiskoye and Bondyuzhskoye..
  

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• Tatarstan is also rich in brown and black coal,
  copper, gypsum, dolomites, clays, mineral waters
  and medical muds

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Water resources

• The republic has huge water resources. The Volga
  river system is of great importance to Russia and
  Tatarstan. The Volga, the Kama, the Vyatka and
  the Belaya rivers are the four longest rivers.

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Rivers

• But there are also a lot of smaller rivers the
  Zai, the Myosha, the Cheremshan, the Kazanka, etc
  and a lot of beautiful lakes, such as Lake Kaban,
  Swan Lake, Blue Lake, Deep Lake and others

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Population

• The population of the Republic of Tatarstan is
  around 3,8 million people. 2,7 million people
  live in towns and cities.

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Living

• One million people live in the countryside.
  Tatartan takes the eighth place in the Russian
  Federation (after Moscow, St. Petersburg,
  Bashkortostan, Moscow region, Krasnodar region,
  Rostov region, Sverdlovsk region).

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Cities and towns

• There are 19 cities and towns and more than 3000
  settlements in Tatarstan. The largest cities are
• Kazan
• Naberezhnye Chelny
• Nizhnekamsk

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Cities and towns

• Almetyevsk
• Zelenodolsk
• Bugulma

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History

• Tatarstan is a multireligious republic. During
  its history Tatarstan has accumulated the richest
  experience of peoples of various nationalities,
  ethnic and religious groups. More than 100
  nationalities live friendly in the republic.

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The two main nationalities are

• the Tatars (more than 2 million people)
• the Russians (1,5 million people).
• The third place is taken by the Chuvashes 126,5
  thousand people.
• The important national values are tolerance,
  consensus and compromise.

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Kazan

• The capital of Tatarstan is Kazan. Kazan is one
  of the oldest and most beautiful cities in the
  Volga region. Kazan is a thousand year old
  city with rich and unique history. In 2005 the
  people of Tatarstan, Russia and the whole world
  celebrated its millennium anniversary.

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Suyumbike Tower

• The most unusual structure in the Kremlin
  complex is the Suyumbike Tower. It has become the
  architectural symbol of Kazan and is famous a
  long way from the Republic of Tatarstan.

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The Kazan Kremlin

• The Kazan Kremlin reminds us of the role Kazan
  played in the long stormy history not only of
  Tatarstan and Russia, but of the Eurasian
  continent. From 1708 the Kremlin became the
  centre of the first Kazan district of the Russian
  Empire.

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Sabantuy

• Tatarstan is a multicultural republic. There are
  many various festivals holidays. Some of them are
  specific to this or that nation. Many of them
  have become very popular common and loved by all.
  For example Sabantuy .

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• Sabantuy is the most popular festival in
  Tatarstan. This holiday takes place at the
  beginning of summer. During this festival there
  are a lot of spectacular competitions. The most
  exciting are the horse races

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Nauruz

• Nauruz means the New Year Day. It is a very old
  festival. This festival takes place on the 21 st
  of March. This holiday symbolizes the end of
  darkness and the victory of the light over the
  evil. It is a bright and unforgettable festival.
  People sing songs and dance.

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Sport

• Million people all over the world are fond of
  sports and games. Sport is very popular in
  Tatarstan too. Today Tatarstan is the land of
  well developed sportsmen, famous athletes, the
  Olympic champions known all over the world.

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Ak Bars

• The Kazan Ak Bars is the most popular ice
  hockey team in Tatarstan. It has become one of
  the best ice hockey teams in Russia. The
  Kazaners are always happy to go to their matches.

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Ishpishmak

• The Tatars like the pastries of all kinds very
  much. One of their favourite ones is
  ishpishmak. It is a triangle shaped pie with
  chopped peppered meat, potatoes and some onion.

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Peremyach

• Peremyach is also a meat pie, but it is round.
  It is a very tasty!

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Plov

• Plov is one of the favourite dishes the people
  in Tatarstan choose to eat. It has meat, rice,
  onions, carrots and a lot of sapices.

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Pelmeni

• If you like soups, you will probably like noodle
  soup and meat dumplings (pelmeni).

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Others

• The most popular drink in Tatarstan is tea. The
  Tatars like tea with milk, with lemon or with
  dried apricots. And sweet pastries chuk
  chuk, kosh tele, talkysh keleve and much
  more.

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Animals and birds

• Tatarstan is famous for a large variety of
  species of animals and birds There live hundreds
  of them. Some of them are in the red Book. The
  main task of the population of Tatarstan is to
  protect them for our future generations.
  Protected natural territories play an important
  role.