Tatar Encyclopaedia


Tatar Encyclopaedic Dictionary is the first encyclopaedic dictionary published in Tatar language about history of Tatarstan and the Tatar people. The publication is produced by Tatar Encyclopedia Institute of the Republic of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences.
Originally prepared and published in Russian in 1999, Tatar-language version of Tatar Encyclopaedic Dictionary was made available in 2002.
Tatar Encyclopaedia Institute further started work on developing multi-volume Tatar Encyclopaedia, Tatarstan: Illustrated encyclopedia. The responsible editor for the encyclopedia is Gamircan S. Sabircanov.
Tatar Encyclopaedia Institute founding director, TES and Tatar Encyclopaedias founding editor-in-chief M. X. Xäsänov died in 2010.