Astrakhan Tatars

Astrakhan Tatars
Total population
	60.000
Regions with significant populations
Russia	30-60.000
Languages
	Tatar
Religion
	Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
	Volga Tatars

Astrakhan Tatars (Tatar: Əsterxan tatarları, Әsterhan tatarlary, Ashtarkhan tatarları) are a subgroup of the Volga Tatar.

In the 15th to 17th centuries the Astrakhan Tatars inhabited the Astrakhan Khanate (1459–1556), which was also inhabited by the Nogai Horde, and the Astrakhan Tatars experienced^{[clarification needed]} a profound effect on Nogais. Since the 17th century there has been an increased interaction and ethnic mixing of the Astrakhan Tatars with Kazan Tatars.^[2]

Population[]

The Astrakhan Tatars (around 60,000) are a group of Tatars, descendants of the Astrakhan Khanate's population, who live mostly in Astrakhan Oblast. For the Russian Census in 2010, most Astrakhan Tatars declared themselves simply as Tatars and few declared themselves as Astrakhan Tatars. A large number of Volga Tatars live in Astrakhan Oblast and differences between them have been disappearing.

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, writing in 1911, "The Astrakhan Tatars (about 10,000) are, with the Mongol Kalmucks, all that now remains of the once so powerful Astrakhan empire. They also are agriculturists and gardeners..."^[3]

While Astrakhan (Ästerxan) Tatar is a mixed dialect, around 43,000 have assimilated to the Middle (i.e., Kazan) dialect. Their ancestors are Kipchaks, Khazars and some Volga Bulgars. (Volga Bulgars had trade colonies in modern Astrakhan and Volgograd oblasts of Russia.)

The Astrakhan Tatars also assimilated the Agrzhan.^[4]

Culture[]

20th century[]

To 1917, the Astrakhan - one of the major centers of Tatar cultural and social life. Some Kazan Tatars settled in Astrakhan. In 1892, the functioning madrassas "lower classes." The newspaper "Azat Halyk" (1917-1919), "Irek" (1917), "Islah" (1907), "tartysh" (1917-1919), "Idel" (1907 - 1914, renewed in 1991). News magazines "Azat Khanum" (1917-1918), "Magarif" (1909), "Wheel" (1907), etc. Since 1907, he has worked Tatar folk theater. In 1919, organized by Astrakhan Tatar drama school.

Present[]

At present, the company operates the Astrakhan region of the Tatar national culture "Duslyk" and Tatar youth center "Umid" (founded in 1989). Parallel works "Center of preservation and development of the Tatar culture" at the nonprofit Partnership Tatar business center (NP TDC)^{[citation needed]}

Well-Known Astrakhan Tatars[]

Alex Battler – Russian-Canadian scholar and political writer.
Rinat Dasayev – Russian football coach and a former Soviet goalkeeper.

Sources[]

DM Iskhakov Astrakhan Tatars, ethnic settlement and population dynamics in the XVIII - beginning of XX century. / / Astrakhan Tatars. - Kazan, 1992. - S. 5-33.
The Tartars. The people of Russia. Encyclopedia. - M., 1994. - S. 320-321.

References[]

^ Russian Census 2010: Population by ethnicity Archived 2012-04-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
^ Compare: "History astrakhan tatars".
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Kropotkin, Peter Alexeivitch; Eliot, Charles Norton Edgcumbe (1911). "Tatars". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 448.
^ Wixman, Ronald. The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook. (Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc, 1984) p. 15

first site Astrakhan Tatars

[1] Russian Census 2010: Population by ethnicity Archived 2012-04-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)

[2] Compare: "History astrakhan tatars".

[3] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Kropotkin, Peter Alexeivitch; Eliot, Charles Norton Edgcumbe (1911). "Tatars". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 448.

[4] Wixman, Ronald. The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook. (Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc, 1984) p. 15

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