The Organizing Committee of the All-Russian (with international participation) scientific-practical, historical and regional studies conference "Problems of studying, preserving and reviving disappeared villages", which will be held in Aznakaevo (Tatarstan), reports the following:

February 24, 2017, a presentation of the book by one of the classics of Tatar literature "Let's pray" in a literary salon of the cafe "Central" with the great success was held.

On March 25, the 1st All-Russian Congress of Tatar Local Studies worked at the National Center "Kazan".

The Krasnoye selo (Red Village) to host events dedicated to the Day of lifting the blockade of Leningrad.

January 21, 2017 (Saturday), Centre of Tatar culture of the city of Ulyanovsk hosted the conference of Tatar ethnographers of the Ulyanovsk region. It was attended by scientists from the Institute of History after Sh. Mardzhani and the Institute of Tatar Encyclopedia and Regional Studies of RT Academy of sciences.

Another issue of Tatar-speaking popular science magazine "Beznen Miras» (№ 12, 2016) with the publications of scientists of the Institute of History of RT Academy of sciences after Sh. Mardzhani was published.

A single Center of Tatar history and culture will be opened in mid-January in Moscow.

For the 28th consecutive year in Kazan in mid-October a commemoration event is held entitled "Hater kyone" associated with the fall of the Kazan Khanate by troops of Ivan the Terrible in October 1552.

September 18-20, 2016, at the Kazan Kremlin, on the basis of the State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve "The Kazan Kremlin" and Center "Hermitage-Kazan" an international round table devoted to the book of Ahmad ibn Fadlan, his epoch and archaeological collections will be held .

September 9 historians and local lore specialists of the Republic of Crimea and the Tyumen oblast at the round table "From the Crimea to Siberia: the preservation and popularization of the medieval historical and cultural heritage" will discuss the issues of historical heritage of the Tatar khanates - Crimean and Siberian ones.