Tobol Tatars are a sub-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 ...

. Tobol Tatars are settled along the rivers

Irtysh The Irtysh is a river in Russia, China, and Kazakhstan. It is the chief tributary of the Ob (river), Ob and is also the longest tributary in the world. The river's source lies in the Altai Mountains, Mongolian Altai in Dzungaria (the northern p ...

Tobol The Tobol (, ) is a river in Western Siberia (in Kazakhstan and Russia) and the main (left) tributary of the Irtysh. Its length is , and the area of its drainage basin is . History The Tobol River was one of the four important rivers of the S ...

Iset Iset or Aset is an Ancient Egyptian name, meaning "(She) of the throne". It was the name of the goddess better known by her Greek name Isis. For its etymology see Isis – Etymology. Its notable bearers were: * Iset, mother of Thutmose III * ...

, Tura, Pyshma, Tavda,

Noska The Noska ( Russian: Носка, Siberian Tatar: Наскы, ''Nasky'') is a river in Tyumen Oblast, Russia.Article
in the

, Layma in

Tyumen Tyumen ( ; rus, Тюмень, p=tʲʉˈmʲenʲ, a=Ru-Tyumen.ogg) is the administrative center and largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Tyumen Oblast, Russia. It is situated just east of the Ural Mountains, along the Tura ( ...

and

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Oblasts.

They are divided into four local sub-groups: * Aremzyan-Nadtsin Tatars. They assimilated local

Khanty The Khanty (), also known in older literature as Ostyaks (), are a Ugric Indigenous people, living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as " Yugra" in Russia, together with the Mansi. In the autonomous okrug, the K ...

and

Mansi Mansi may refer to: * Mansi people, an Indigenous people of Russia ** Mansi language *Mansi (name), given name and surname *Mansi Junction railway station * Mansi Township, Myanmar ** Mansi, Myanmar, a town in the Kachin State of Myanmar (Burma) * ...

tribes. In the 17th century it included Tatar volosts, located along the

river north of

Tobolsk Tobolsk (, ) is a town in Tyumen Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Tobol and Irtysh rivers. Founded in 1587, Tobolsk is the second-oldest Russian settlement east of the Ural Mountains in Asian Russia, and was the historic capita ...

up to the Turtas river. * Iskero-Tobolsk Tatars. The group is located south of Tobolsk. The group is Yurtovsk Tatars, who were in military service. * Babasan Tatars. They inhabit part of the Tobol basin from the lower reaches of the Tavda to the Mirimov yurts, inhabited by

Siberian Bukharans The Siberian Bukharans (self-designation: ''Poğarlı'') are an ethnographic and sociocultural group in Siberia. They constituted a significant part of the Tobol-Irtysh and Tom groups of Siberian Tatars. The legend has it that their ancestors cam ...

. The term comes from the name of the Babasan volosts, which were recorded from the end of the 16th century until the October Revolution. * Ishtyak-Tokuz Tatars. The group is named after two tribal groups of the Vagay river basin and

Uvat Uvat () is the name of several rural localities in Russia: *Uvat, Irkutsk Oblast, a village in Nizhneudinsky District of Irkutsk Oblast * Uvat, Tyumen Oblast, a '' selo'' in Uvatsky Rural Okrug of Uvatsky District of Tyumen Oblast Tyumen Obla ...

swamps. They form a group of Tobol-Irtysh Tatars and speak Tobol speach, with Eastern Tobol (Tokuz-Uvat) subdialect.Лит.: Валеев Ф. Т.-А., Томилов Н. А. Сибирские татары // Тюркские народы Сибири. М., 2006.

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Literature

* Томилов Н.А. Этническая история тюркоязычного населения Западно-Сибирской равнины конца XVI – начала XX в. – Новосибирск: Изд-во Новосиб. ун-та, 1992. – 271 с. * Мерзликин В.В. Тобольские татары: проблемы генезиса, семантики и типологии традиционных погребальных сооружений.

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Customs and traditions of the Siberian Tatars of Vagaysky district (Ishtyak-Tokuz Tatars)
Siberian Tatars Khanate of Sibir Tyumen Oblast Omsk Oblast