in Dresden at the German-Russian Cultural Institute Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, who is on a three-day working visit in Germany (June 1-3), took part in the literary and musical evening dedicated to the 130th anniversary of Tatar poet Gabdulla Tukai.

On June 1, at the national-cultural center Kazan, awarding winners of the II All-Russian Open Internet - children's art competition "Bahetle balachak" took place.

The year of 2016 in the activities of the NGO "Tatar Cultural Centre" of the West Kazakhstan region has been declared the Year of Tukai. As part of this year a series of events dedicated to the 130th anniversary of Tatar poet Gabdulla Tukai and the 120th anniversary of his arrival in Uralsk will be held.

From May 24 - 28 at the city of Visaginas (Lithuania) with great success the Days of Tatar culture took place.

It has become a good tradition to hold meetings at the International public association "Tatar-Bashkir cultural heritage" Chishma "in Belarus. This time the festival with national color brought Tatar women living in Minsk, it passed on 23.05, 2016, at the House of Moscow. The leitmotif of the meeting were the following words: «Hey kalfagym, kalfagym, kalfaklar kiyar chagym! kunelemya yam biryache, nur buldy kalfagym shul. "

On May 25 in Moscow, the State Museum of A.S. Pushkin successfully held fourth music festival of Russia and CIS youth "Commonwealth of talents" named after Fuat Mansurov.