The role of Kazan University in the study of the spiritual culture of the Volga Tatars

F.F. Mardanova

Kazan Federal University, Kazan, 420008 Russia

E-mail: filuzmardanova@yandex.ru

Received February 26, 2020

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DOI: 10.26907/2541-7738.2020.3.181-195

For citation: Mardanova F.F. The role of Kazan University in the study of the spiritual culture of the Volga Tatars. Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Gumanitarnye Nauki, 2020, vol. 162, no. 3, pp. 181–195. doi: 10.26907/2541-7738.2020.3.181-195. (In Russian)

Abstract

The role of Kazan University in the study of the spiritual culture of the Volga Tatars in 1900–1920 was analyzed. Since the foundation of Kazan University, the peoples of the Volga region, including the Tatars, have been of particular research interest. Kazan University has had a number of departments, scientific societies, and museums dedicated to their ethnography.

Notably, this paper does not address the full role of Kazan University in the study of the Tatar ethnography. The chronological framework of the study covers the period from the early 20th century up to tion spiritual nographic Museum in casting light on the spiritual life of the Tatars, as well as of the teaching, research, cline 1920s were discussed.

Keywords: Kazan University, Society of Archaeology, History, and Ethnography, Ethnographic Museum, spiritual culture of Tatars, ethnography

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