Tatarian Dances

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Salavat for Kurban Bayram

The Seven Pearls

Tatarstan National Song and Dance Ensemble - Seven Pearls

Tatar - Russian Dictionary 1966

This is a re post of that HUGE Tatar/Russian Dictionary from 1966. (140MB!)

This dictionary is a Xerox of the original held at University of California, Berkeley.

The professor would not permit the dictionary to leave the building, so I stood next to his desk and copied it in its entirety. The Xerox machine ran out of paper and broke down a few times, professor running out of patience. This file is a .pdf of a scan of a Xerox so it is far from pristine. Another problem I encountered in 1987, when this was scanned was that there did not exist a Tatar/English dictionary. I would use this dictionary first and then to a Russian/English dictionary. You could imagine the difficulty in this two step process. Here it is:  

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Songs from the Land of my Childhood - Bashkortostan

The Dance of the Seven Girls - Ete Kiz Biyu
Girl Galiabanou
Goose's Wing - Kaz Kanaty
Butterfly - Kubelek
Chirping Crane - Sonray Torna
Girl Khatira
I Was Not Leaving You - Tashlamam Digen Idem
On the River - Hiy Builap
Blue Gown - Zenger Kulmek
The River Irendek
On Our Street - Beznen Ouramda
Nightingale - Ai Bil Bilim

Tatar Alphabets

		janl		yan2	zamn	kirl
		Aa		Aa	Aa	Аа
		Әә		Әә	Ää	Әә
		Bb		Bb	Bb	Бб
		Çç		Cc	Cc	Җҗ
		Cc		Çç	Çç	Чч
		Dd		Dd	Dd	Дд
		Ee		Ee	Ee	Ее
		Ff		Ff	Ff	Фф
		Gg		Gg	Gg	Гг
		Ƣƣ		Ğğ	Ğğ	Гг
		Hh		Hh	Hh	Һһ
		Ii		İi	İi	Ии
		Ƅƅ		Iı	Iı	Ыы
					Íí
				Jj	Jj	Жж
		Kk		Kk	Kk	Кк
		Ll		Ll	Ll	Лл
		Mm		Mm	Mm	Мм
		Nn		Nn	Nn	Нн
		Ŋŋ		Ŋŋ	Ññ	Ңң
		Oo		Oo	Oo	Оо
		Өө		Өө	Öö	Өө
		Pp		Pp	Pp	Пп
		Qq		Qq	Qq	Кк
		Rr		Rr	Rr	Рр
		Ss		Ss	Ss	Сс
		Şş		Şş	Şş	Шш
		Tt		Tt	Tt	Тт
		Uu		Uu	Uu	Уу
		Ƴƴ		Üü	Üü	Үү
		Vv		Vv	Vv	Вв
		Ww		Ww	Ww	Вв
		Xx		Xx	Xx	Хх
		Jj		Yy	Yy	Йй
		Zz		Zz	Zz	Зз

Tatarça-rusça on-line süzlek

This is that new-ish online Tatar - Russian, Russian - Tatar dictionary.
It also has a pronunciation feature which is nice. This combined with managing five different alphabets and we're ready to learn some vocabulary!

here: Sozlek

We've added it to the list of Dictionary tools on your right.

Lost Cosmonaut 2006

Lost Cosmonaut by Daniel Kalder.
We ran across this book the other day and remembered that it appeared frequently when conducting Amazon.com searches under "Tatar". We picked it up and decided it was worth a read.

So... A man from Scotland visits Tatarstan, Kalmykia, Mari El, and Udmurtia, and specifically these locations as he expects to find "nothing" there. He is in search of locations that tourists would never desire to visit.

This strangely appealing book swings back and forth between being incredibly insulting to quite informative.

His sole commentary of the Tatar State Theatre is that the building has "loads of bird shit" on it. He also decides that a Russian he meets in Kazan is a "trouser-pilot" and "cock-muncher".

Here is an excerpt:

"An interesting point regarding those peoples of the former Soviet Union whose names begin with "K": sometimes there is more than one way to spell those names. Kalmyk, for example, is sometimes written Kalmuck, just as Kyrgyz can also be written Kirghiz and I have seen Kazakh spelled Kazak. There is also a group of baptized Tatars called the Krashen or Kreshen.
This signifies that no one in the English-speaking world gives a fuck."

another excerpt:

"I like to read about the Kazan of old, of dreaming minarets and Asiatic bazaars, I do. But I'm glad it was destroyed.
If it existed today it would be a dilapidated heap, or a sterile heritage center, an empty shell that existed for tourists only, insipid and dull, like Prague. But the obliterated Kazan can never be visited, except in our imaginations, and thus it can never disappoint. It has a mythic power. Through annihilation it has been transubstantiated. And the pitiful squalor of the real Kazan only adds to the beauty and power of the unreal one."

Concerning the preservation of the threatened cultures he visits, the author expresses insight in the following excerpt:

"In Tatarstan, In Mari El, I had encountered a ferocious straining, an attempt at self-assertion in the face of global indifference"

This book was originally published as "Travels to the Republics that Tourism Forgot"