Chat Tatars

The Chat Tatars (Tatar: чат татарлары, Siberian Tatar: цат татарлар, цаттыр) are one of the three subgroups of Tom Tatar group of Siberian Tatars. Their traditional areas of settlement are on the rivers Ob, Chik, Uen', and Chaus in Kozhevnikovsky District, Tomsk Oblast, and in Kolyvansky and Moshkovsky districts, Novosibirsk Oblast since the 8th century, later also on the territory of modern Shegarsky, Tomsky, Kochenyovsky, Bolotninsky, Novosibirsky, Toguchinsky, Iskitimsky, Ordynsky districts, and in the cities of Tomsk, Novosibirsk, and Berdsk. They live, among others, in the villages of Chernaya Rechka and Takhtamyshevo.

Peoples of Siberia in the 16th century.

Chat Tatars

Cattyr, Цаттыр
Chat Tatar woman. Illustration from a book published in 1799.
Regions with significant populations
Russia	2100
Languages
Tom dialect of Siberian Tatar, Russian
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
other Siberian Tatars

Chat Tatars are divided into two sub-groups: Tom (Tomsk Oblast) and Ob (Novosibirsk Oblast).

Eastern region of the Khanate of Sibir in 1594-1598

The Chats (along with other related groups of Siberian Tatars) are Sunni Muslims.^[1]

Genetics

According to Valikhova L.V. et al. (2022), in the Chat Tatar villages of Chernaya Rechka and Takhtamyshevo predominate Eastern Eurasian Y-DNA haplogroups N1a1a1a3a2-Z35326, C2a1a2a-M86 and R1a1a1b2a2b-Z2122, as well as R1b1a1a2a2c1-CTS1843 (in the Takhtamyshevo village), which is otherwise widespread in the Volga-Ural region. Chat Tatars harbor strong Mongolic component, but also a Siberian Turkic one.^[2]