Today, on October 8th, the “Tatarcha Dictant” event took place at the Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication of Kazan Federal University. This year marks its ninth iteration. Participants were presented with an excerpt from Sharif Kamal’s novel “Matur Tuganda”.

The event was attended by members of the World Congress of the Tatars, including: Danis Shakirov, Head of the Executive Committee of the World Congress of the Tatars; Mars Tukayev, Head of the Committee for Work with Tatar Public Organizations in the Regions of the Russian Federation; Rainur Hasanov, Chairman of the Public Organisation “World Forum of Tatar Youth”, and others.

The text was read by Ramilya Sagdeeva, Associate Professor of the Department of Tatar Linguistics at KFU and author of Tatar language textbooks. As is customary, the “Tatarcha Dictant” event concluded with the song “Tugan Tel”, performed by Sayda Mukhametzyanova, a finalist of the television project “The Voice” and a young singer.