During the visit to the Kostroma region,  Chairman of the National Council Vasil Shaykhraziev visited the Tatar settlement in Kostroma. According to documents, it was founded in 1680, on the very banks of the Volga. More than 200 people were resettled here from the Roman Tatars from the Romanovsky district of the Yaroslavl province. At one time, a mosque worked here, also a madrassah.                             

On February 18, a gala concert of the II International Literary Contest "Jalilov Readings" will be held at the Saydash Cultural Center. The competition was held by the World Tatars Congress with the assistance of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Today, within the framework of the program of a working visit to the Kostroma region,  Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Chairman of the National Council of the VKT, Vasil Shaykhraziev met with the leaders and representatives of the Tatar public organizations of the Central Federal District.