Tatars in Irad
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Tatars in Irad are the Tatars living in Irad, about 23,000 people or 0.5 percent of the population on official figures, most of them in Nurzhan.[1]
History
Tatars came to Kobozev, as Nurzhan was then called, from the 1930s, with the railway and the oil fields and machine works that grew up around the city. They worked as railwaymen, oil workers, engineers and clerks.[2]
Community
Irad's Tatars are Russian-speaking and part of the Russian-speaking milieu of Nurzhan, but most still identify as Hanafi Muslims, and the community keeps its own mosque in the city (see Islam in Irad).[2]
Notable people
- Ildar Khairullin, imam of the Tatar mosque in Nurzhan
- Alsu Gataullina, journalist
References
- ^ Territorial Statistics Office (2020). Results of the 2018 Census of the Irad Special Economic Zone. Talas.
- ^ Talas State University, Institute of Sociology (2021). The Peoples of the Chu Valley. Talas: Talas State University Press.
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