Identities of Urban and Rural Population in Tatarstan: Vectors of Solidarity and Patterns of Agreement

DOI: 10.33876/2311-0546/2026-2/59-73

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Keywords:

civil identity, ethnic identity, regional identity, consolidation, solidarization, consent

Abstract

The article examines the indicators of national, regional and ethnic identities among urban and rural residents of the Republic of Tatarstan, reflecting their relevance and intensity. The purpose of this work is to consider the various types of identity and see whether they encourage people to consolidate, assess their impact on interethnic relations in the multicultural atmosphere of Tatarstan, identify the vectors of solidarity, the value markers of identities and their emotional content. The paper is based on the materials from the study " Ethnosocial Processes in Territorial Groups of the Modern Russian Population of the Ural-Volga Region", carried out in 2026, as well as the results from earlier studies conducted in 2021–2025. It can be concluded that in the capital of the Republic the identity indicators are more stable. In general, different types of identities don't seem to contradict each other seriously in the hierarchy of identities among the residents of the Republic of Tatarstan. Respondents identified themselves both as Russian citizens and as members of their ethnic group, as well as residents of the Republic.

Author Biographies

  • Tatiana Titova, Kazan Federal University

    Titova, Tatiana A. — Professor, Doctor of History, Professor of the Department of History of Tatarstan, Archeology and Ethnography, Kazan Federal University (Kazan, Russia). E-mail: tatiana.titova@rambler.ru  ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5921-3287

     

  • Vadim Kozlov, Kazan Federal University

    Kozlov, Vadim E. — Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor of the Department of History of Tatarstan, Archeology and Ethnography, Kazan Federal University (Kazan, Russia). E-mail: vadim.kozlov@list.ru   ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7152-152X

     

  • Elena Frolova, Kazan Federal University

    Frolova, Elena V. — Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor of the Department of History of Tatarstan, Archeology and Ethnography, Kazan Federal University (Kazan, Russia). E-mail: elenaieup@mail.ru  ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2125-5443

    For Citation: Titova, T. A., V. E. Kozlov, and E. V. Frolova. 2026. Identities of Urban and Rural Population in Tatarstan: Vectors of Solidarity and Patterns of Agreement. Herald of Anthropology (Vestnik Antropologii) 2: 59–73.

    Funding: This work was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Science Foundation (RSF), project No. 26-18-00117, project topic: “Ethnosocial Processes in Territorial Groups of the Modern Russian Population of the Ural-Volga Region”.

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Published

11.06.2026

Issue

No. 2 (2026): Herald of Anthropology (Vestnik antropologii)

Section

Идентичность в количественном измерении