Gölçatay
Shop window of Gölçatay, which calls itself a fashionable Muslim clothing salon. Gölçatay is best known in the post-Soviet space as the name by which the Bolshevik officer calls all nine of the wives liberated by the Bolsheviks in the classic Soviet film <a title="Wikipedia page for the film White Sun of the Desert" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sun_of_the_Desert"><em>White Sun of the Desert</em></a> (1970).<br />
Avram Lyon
2010-11-10
image/jpeg
ru
Bauman Street, Kazan, Russia
Письмо Николая Александровича Бобровникова
1897
НА РТ
ru
Letter
НА РТ ф. 93 оп. 1 д.557 лл.1-5об (с оборотами)
Мы булгары, а не татары.
We are Bulgars and not Tatars.
Graffiti on a Soviet-era mural in Kazan. The symbol in white above the phrase, "We are Bulgars and not Tatars" is a symbol of the Neo-Bulgarist movement, and it is meant to represent a rune, such as those used in Volga Bulgaria before the state converted to Islam in the ninth century.
September 2010
Avram Lyon
ru
Corner of ul. Dekabristov and ul. Gagarina, Kazan, Russia
Äl-İslax, №22
An issue of the Tatar journal Äl-İslax, which was published in Kazan in 1907 and 1908.
КФУ НБ
March 9, 1908
tt-Arab
Janalif
Janalif Publishers
Logotype of the Janalif publishing house in Kazan, as it appeared on the back cover of Shamil Usmanov's 1928 <em>Taŋ</em>.
КФУ НБ Т55777
1928
tt-Latn
Без татарлар / мы татары
Poster advertising a free three-month course in Tatar language, Tatar history and the basics of Islam, sponsored by the World Congress of Tatars and the Russian Islamic University.
2011-02-01
A4, glossy
ru, tt
второй корпус КФУ, татфак
И туган тел, и матур тел / Единство татар в единстве речи
Poster advertising a three-month beginning course in Tatar language, the history of the Tatar people, and the foundations of Islam. Sponsored by the Muhammediya mosque.
2011-02-02
A4, glossy poster
ru, tt
2-корпус КФУ, татфак
Chairs from the German Democratic Republic
Six chairs from the German Democratic Republic in the storage area of the Wende Museum, Culver City, California.
Artifact
Germany (East)