FOLLOWING THE GREAT TATAR WAY (A REPORT ON THE TRIP TO POLAND, JUNE 7–8, 2017)

On June 7, 2017, the delegation of the Sh.Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences made presentations at the international conference, “The Great Tatar Way”. The program of the international conference was timed to coincide with the “620th anniversary of the settlement of the Tatars in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania”. The delegation from Tatarstan included Rafael Khakimov (the director of the Institute of History), Radik Salikhov (deputy director of the Institute of History for Scientific Work), Marat Gibatdinov (deputy director of the Institute of History for International Cooperation), Liliya Gabdrafikova (senior research fellow at the Institute of History), and Elmira Sayfetdinova (senior research fellow at the Center for Research of the Golden Horde and Tatar Khanates). The Tatar delegation presented the book, “The Golden Horde in World History”, and a copy of the book's English translation was handed over to the President of the National Center for Culture of the Tatars of the Commonwealth. On June 8, 2017, the Sh.Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences signed an agreement on cooperation with the Warsaw Archives of Ancient Acts. Regarding this, issues of joint cooperation in the field of research and study of archival documents on the history of the Tatars were discussed within the framework of the Round Table. Also, the Sh.Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences presented a seven-volume “History of Tatars from Ancient Times” and a monograph, “The Golden Horde in World History”, in English.