Aleksey Nikolaevich Starostin,
Ural State Mining University,
30 Kuibyshev Str., Yekaterinburg, 620144, Russia,
alisheria@mail.ru.
The article describes the attitude of the members and activists of the Tatar-Bashkir and Tatar national and cultural autonomies, and ethnic and cultural social associations of the Sverdlovsk Region to the development of ethnic and confessional relations in the region, the state of the Tatar language and Tatar culture, and the level of state support, mixed marriages, and religion. The article is based on the results of the sociological survey conducted in the Sverdlovsk Region in 2012.
Key words: Tatars, national-cultural autonomy, Islam, ethnic and confessional relations, tolerance, culture, the Tatar language, ethnicity, identity.