The history of the people known as the Tatars of the Middle Volga and Urals has a difficult and long path of development. More than a thousand years ago, the ancestors of the Tatar people appeared on the banks of the Volga and Kama, and since then, in friendship with other peoples, the region has been forming. The book shows this historical process, reveals the main ethnic features of the Tatar people. The book is designed for the general reader.