Volga Tatars

term for a Turkic ethnic group living in the middle of the Volga River and north of the Ural River, which is the titular population of Tatarstan.

Soviet and Russian footballer (1937-2010)

thumb|Percentage of Nağaybäk in Chelyabinsk Oblast Nağaybäks ( ) are an ethnoreligious group of Volga Tatars in Russia, recognized as a separate people under Russian legislation. Most Nağaybäks live in the Nagaybaksky and Chebarkulsky Districts of the Chelyabinsk Oblast. They speak a sub-dialect of the Tatar language's middle dialect known as the Nagaibak dialect. Russian and Tatar historians usually treat the Nağaybäks as an integral part of Volga Tatars; a minority considers Nağaybäks a separate ethnicity in their own right. In the 1989 Russian census, 11,200 people identified themselves as

The Besermyan, Biserman, Besermans, or Besermens, are a numerically small Permian people in Russia.

Kryashens (, , ; sometimes called Baptised Tatars ()) are a subgroup of the Volga Tatars, frequently referred to as one of the minority ethnic groups in Russia. They are mostly found in Tatarstan and in Udmurtia, Bashkortostan and Chelyabinsk Oblast.

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thumb|right|200px|A 2007 monument to emir Ibrahim ibn Muhammad, a ruler of [[Volga Bulgaria, founder of Elabuga]] Bulgarism is an ideology aimed at the "revival of Bulgars' national identity" and Volga Bulgaria statehood. It originated in the second half of 19th century within the Wäisi movement and the Society for the study of the native land (Chuvashia). It was revived at the end of the 20th century as "neobulgarism" in Tatarstan, Bashkortoston and Chuvashia.

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mosque in Luhansk, Ukraine

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