The Chat Tatars (, ) are one of the three subgroups of
Tom Tatar group of
Siberian Tatars
Siberian Tatars () are the Indigenous peoples of Siberia, indigenous Turkic languages, Turkic-speaking population of the forests and steppes of southern Western Siberia, originating in areas stretching from somewhat east of the Ural Mountains to ...
. Their traditional areas of settlement are on the rivers
Ob, Chik, Uen', and Chaus in
Kozhevnikovsky District,
Tomsk Oblast
Tomsk Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It lies in the southeastern West Siberian Plain, in the southwest of the Siberian Federal District. Its administrative center is the types of inhabited loca ...
, and in
Kolyvansky and
Moshkovsky districts,
Novosibirsk Oblast
Novosibirsk Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in southwestern Siberia. Its administrative center, administrative and economic center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of N ...
since the 8th century, later also on the territory of modern
Shegarsky,
Tomsky,
Kochenyovsky,
Bolotninsky,
Novosibirsky,
Toguchinsky,
Iskitimsky,
Ordynsky districts, and in the cities of
Tomsk
Tomsk (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Tomsk Oblast in Russia, on the Tom (river), Tom River. Population:
Founded in 1604, Tomsk is one of the oldest cities in Siberia. It has six univers ...
,
Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and the Siberian Federal District in Russia. As of the 2021 Russian census, 2021 census, it had a population of 1,633,595, making it the most populous city in Siber ...
, and
Berdsk
Berdsk () is a town in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia. A suburb of Novosibirsk, it is on the Berd River. In the 2010 Russian census, its population was
Geography
Berdsk is on the Berd River. Open land is south of the town and a pine forest coverin ...
. They live, among others, in the villages of Chernaya Rechka and Takhtamyshevo.
Chat Tatars are divided into two sub-groups: Tom (Tomsk Oblast) and Ob (Novosibirsk Oblast).
The Chats (along with other related groups of Siberian Tatars) are Sunni Muslims.
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{{Ethnic groups of Russia
Siberian Tatars
Khanate of Sibir
Novosibirsk Oblast
Tomsk Oblast