A week with my family in Ufa, Russia | Bashkortostan - the land of Bashkirs and Tatars

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Bashkortostan is home to Russia's biggest ethnic minorities - Tatars and Bashkirs. The Bashkirs are a Kipchak Turkic ethnic group, indigenous to Russia and they speak Bashkir language, a close relative of the Tatar language. Once Bashkirs were nomadic and they were incorporated into the great Mongol Empire, but then they joined Russia! They traditionally practiced agriculture, cattle-rearing and bee-keeping. The nomadic Bashkirs wandered either the mountains or the steppes, herding cattle, and even now people identify strongly with their village and regard this as the main social unit.

I will show you the capital of Bashkortostan - Ufa and introduce you to the Bashkir national costumes, songs and dances. And, I will also introduce you to my Tatar family who lives in Bashkortostan!

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Time codes:
00:00 Welcome to Ufa! Where is Bashkortostan and who lives here?
01:56 Meet my crazy cousins (in Russian we call them sisters/brothers)
05:22 Ufa city center... or Times Square? 😱
07:25 Bashkir costumes, songs and dances 💃🏻
10:40 I've been a filmmaker since my childhood!
12:36 A promise that I will regret about 😁
13:27 Road trip to the village of my granny
16:06 A typical village in Bashkortostan
19:40 Harvesting the crops - most important thing in autumn!

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- Who are the tatars? | Largest ethnic minority in Russia

- Life in a small Tatar village in the Urals of Russia | Cooking iconic Tatar dish Chak Chak

- Life in Russia after sanctions - ULTIMATE journey through the east to the west
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- Tatar song about Bashkortostan from the video
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