History of Jews in Udmurtia and Tatarstan

Jews from Udmurtia and Tatarstan. Udmurt and Tatar Jews are special territorial ethnocultural groups of the Ashkenazi Jews, which started to be formed in the residence areas of mixed Turkic-speaking (Tatars, Kryashens, Bashkirs, Chuvash people), Finno-Ugric-speaking (Udmurts, Mari people) and Slavic-speaking (Russians) population. Also from 1807 in the industrial and administrative centers of the Sarapulsky Uezd the Germans began to reside (predominantly in Izhevsk, Votkinsk, Sarapul). Until this time the Germans in the region of formation of udmurt and tatar Jewry lived only to Kazan (from the XVIII century). The possibility of occurrence of Jewish communities in the region was made possible after the decree of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia on August 26, 1827 on the introduction of conscription for the Jews (see Cantonists).

The Ashkenazi Jews on the territory of the Udmurt Republic first appeared in the 1830s. On the territory of Tatarstan the Ashkenazim began to live in the same period of time.

Initially the Ashkenazi Jews lived in the vast majority in the workmen's settlement of Izhevsky Zavod (at present Izhevsk) and the uezd city of Sarapul (both inhabited localities were at that time a part of the Sarapulsky Uezd of the Vyatka Governorate, are now the two largest cities in Udmurtia), as well as in the city of Kazan (at the time a town and the administrative center of the Kazan Governorate, now the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan). Jews of these territories were Yiddish-speaking.

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