This winter, the department of Tatar culture House of Peoples' Friendship in Magnitogorsk decided to arrange for compatriots true winter sittings that have long existed in Tatarstan and called "Aulak oi."

On Saturday, February 4, 2017, at the sports arena "Youth" of Ryazan City the II interethnic Spartakiada "Make friends with peoples" took place.

March 09-11, 2017, the VI All-Russian gathering of entrepreneurs of Tatar villages in Kazan will be held.

Permanent Representative of the Republic of Tatarstan in St. Petersburg and Leningrad oblast Renat Valiullin attended a creative evening of the famous opera singer, a laureate of international competitions, a soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre, Honored Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan Timur Abdikeev.

From January 24 to 27, in Samara the XI open international research conference of young researchers "Education. Science. Profession" took place The conference was attended by pupils of the senior classes of secondary schools from Russian regions and abroad.

On January 29, the concert hall of the Center for Music Education "Kamerton" in Magnitogorsk features the Third International Competition of vocalists named after People's Artist of Tatarstan Gabdulla Rakhimkulov.

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

January 26, at 17.0,0 the exhibition of one of the brightest representatives of the Tatar community of the city Elmira Mustafina, called the "Golden City" will open in the premises of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Tatarstan in St. Petersburg and Leningrad region.

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.

Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev met with the First president of Tatarstan, State Advisor of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Republican chairman of the Foundation Board of Trustees of the revival of monuments of history and culture of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev, on the eve of his 80th birthday.