Population of Tatars in the Muslim Republics of the USSR (1979-1989)

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          Union Republics         1979           1989 
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          Uzbek SSR 
            Tatars               648,764        656,600 

          Kazakh SSR 
            Tatars               313,460        331,150 

          Azerbaijan SSR 
            Tatars                31,350         28,564 

          Tajik SSR 
            Tatars                80,000         79,440 

          Kirghiz SSR 
            Tatars                72,020         72,990 

          Turkmen SSR 
            Tatars                40,320         39,280 


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       Autonomous Republics       1979          1989 
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          Bashkir ASSR 
            Tatars               940,446      1,120,702 

          Tatar ASSR 
            Tatars             1,641,600      1,765,400 

(*) The population statistics presented above are taken from the following sources:

Tatary. Popularni ocerk etniceskoi istorii i demografii (1993), by D.M.Ishakov.

Tatary i Tatarstan. Kazan, 1993.

Muslim Communities Reemerge. Historical Perspectives on Nationality, Politics, and Opposition in the Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Edward Allworth, editor of English edition; translated from the German and French by Caroline Sawyer. Durham and London, Duke University Press, 1994.