Tatars in Ukraine

Not to be confused with Crimean Tatars.

Further information: Tatars and Tartary

Tatars are one of many ethnic minorities in Ukraine. In Ukraine the Tatar national identification is used primarily for such Turkic group as Volga Tatars, less often Siberian Tatars.

Tatars in Ukraine

татари tatary
Total population
73,304 (2001)
Regions with significant populations
Donetsk Oblast	19,161 (2001)
Crimea (w/Sevastopol)	11,090 (2001)
Luhansk Oblast	8,543 (2001)
Kherson Oblast	5,353 (2001)
Zaporizhzhia Oblast	5,177 (2001)
Kharkiv Oblast	4,198 (2001)
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	3,835 (2001)
Odesa Oblast	2,640 (2001)
Sevastopol	2,512 (2001)
other regions of Ukraine	10,795 (2001)
Languages
Russian (58.7%) Tatar (35.2%)

Location and number

In Ukraine, the number of Tatars is estimated at over 73,000 (the 2001 Ukrainian Census)^[1] Tatars in Ukraine lived since the princely times. One of its representatives khan Tugorkhan lived at the Trukhaniv Island until his assassination in 1096.^[2]