Nagai hooks
The Nagaibaken ( Tatar Нагайбәкләр / Nagaybäklär ) are a mostly in the Chelyabinsk Oblast resident group of Tatars , more precisely the subgroup of the Volga-Ural Tatars . In the older literature, the term is Nogaibaken use, since you originally this ethnic group with the Nogaiern brought in connection.
In contrast to the rest of the Tatars, the Nagaibaks are followers of Orthodoxy . In Russian legislation they are officially listed as a small people (малый народ). According to the census, there were around 9,600 Nagai beacons in Russia in 2002, around 9100 of them in Chelyabinsk Oblast.
In the Russian Empire , the Nagaibaks were counted as Christians to the Russians and counted among the Orenburg Cossacks . In the period between 1917 and 1920, Nagaibaks supported the maintenance of the short-lived Alasch Orda state together with the Orenburg Cossacks .
Ferschampenuas is the regional center of the Nagaibaken . The Nagaibaks have been known under the name " Ufa New Baptists" since the beginning of the 18th century. According to various researchers, their origin is either Nogai-Kipchak or Kazan-Tatar.
literature
- Yevgeny Zhukov and others: Sovetskaya istoritscheskaja enziklopedija: Tom 9 . Sowetskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1966, col. 870. (Russian)
Web links
- Nagaibaken in the Historical Encyclopedia of the Urals (Russian)