Selam, Kazan!

Tatarstan Before There Was Colour

Kazan Bulak

Boat / House on Kama

Kama

Fishing on Idel at Kama

pre-1915 Mullah
(and strangely unflattering)

Kazan restaurant and park

Our Crimean Cousins

Gurzuf

Kirim Kids

much more Kirim Tatar content here:

Bilbil

Bilbil = Nightengale
(click on the pic to hear a Bilbil)

Tatars love to sing about nature and many songs refer to birds and birdsongs. Bilbil birds are referred to again and again in Tatar songs and poems. Also the Tatar singing group in Burlingame, California is called "Bilbillar"- "the Nightengales"

Tatar TV on youTube

http://www.youtube.com/user/UruviaKazan
http://www.youtube.com/user/TNVtube

Theses are High-Quality archived video from THB (TNV) Tatar Television.
and they're GREAT!

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The Kazan Herald

This is the first English Language Newspaper in Tatarstan.
http://www.thekazanherald.com/

Kazan 1988

Pictures from Kazan in 1988

A group of Tatars from Helsinki was organizing a trip to visit Kazan. They sent along an invitation to Tatars in California to join them.

I flew to Helsinki, spent some time there and in Northern Finland, then on the Tolstoy Express train to Moscow. Flight from Moscow to Kazan.

This was during the time of Gorbachev. It was still very much a Communist State.

Ebe shows how to make Peremech

Soyembike - Regal

This has to be the most regal looking image of Our Lovely Soyembike.

The Volga Bulgarians

There are a number of statements made as fact in this video above that are not entirely accurate. This video is from the angle of a modern Bulgarian, we believe.

Below - Pilgrimage to Bolgar

and in Bulgarian:

Rita's Tatar Lecture - 2010

Rita lectures about Tatars
recorded in Burlingame , California
This sharp young visitor is from Tatarstan and we were fortunate enough to hear her lecture on Tatars.

Where is Tatarstan?

Crimean Khanate

ASSR map - Kirov - Tatar - Chuvash - Udmurt - Mari

Mubai - Edren Dingez - Adriatic Sea

iSMAiL - "Ике пилот"

This artist is called "Ismail" and the title of the song is "Two Pilots".

Hello and Goodbye - variations