Tatars The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

. In Ukraine the Tatar national identification is used primarily for such Turkic group as

Volga Tatars The Volga Tatars or simply Tatars ( tt-Cyrl, татарлар, tatarlar) are a Turkic ethnic group native to the Volga-Ural region of Russia. They are subdivided into various subgroups. Volga Tatars are Russia's second-largest ethnicity after ...

, less often

Siberian Tatars Siberian Tatars ( sty, , ), the ethnographic and ethnoterritorial group of Tatars of Western Siberia, the indigenous Turkic-speaking population of the forests and steppes of Western Siberia, originate in areas stretching from somewhat east o ...

Location and number

, the number of Tatars is estimated at over 73,000 (the

2001 Ukrainian Census The Ukrainian Census of 2001 is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.

) Tatars in Ukraine lived since the princely times. One of its representatives khan Tugorkhan lived at the

Trukhaniv Island Trukhaniv Island ( uk, Труханів острів, translit.: ''Trukhaniv ostriv'') is an island located on the Dnieper River opposite the historic Podil neighbourhood of the city of Kyiv. Location The island is located on the north side whe ...

until his assassination in 1096.Moskalets, A.
Kyiv Tatars
'. Tatar History. 18 November 2003

References

{{National minorities of Ukraine Ethnic groups in Ukraine