The event is timed to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the TASSR and announced in Tatarstan, "The Year of the Mother Tongue."

In Yekaterinburg, the Inter-regional festival-contest of performers of the Tatar song and instrumental music “Ural Sandugachi” (“Ural Nightingale”)   has  started.

February 28  the Nizhny Novgorod State Circus after  Margarita Nazarova hosted the international festival "We Are Together!", held for the seventh time in the Kanavinsky district. This year the celebration was timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.