Forum of Tatar youth: national heritage won’t disappear

Official opening of the Tatar youth forum, the first major meeting of young representatives of the Tatar nation from the different countries, took place on June 25 at the S.Saidash State Grand Concert Hall.

RT State Council Chairman Farid Mukhametshin greeted the delegates of forum on behalf of President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev.

It is remarkable that the forum of the Tatar youth is being held in Kazan, the city with the richest 1000-year history and original national heritage. Its streets have been impregnated with the spirit of those times when outstanding people of the world culture and science Mardjani and Derzhavin, Lobachevsky and Mushtari, Butlerov and Kamai, Tolstoi and Tukai, Saidashev and Klyucharev and many others had walked down them. Their invaluable creations turned to be a fundamental basis for the development and prosperity of modern spirituality, morals of Tatar people, have become an integral part of world cultural heritage. Undoubtedly, the forum has gathered initiative young people who are capable adequately to learn and work, who are able at the highest level to represent their nation. It would be desirable that your meeting served to unification of efforts on revival of national culture, preservation of spiritual riches. I think it is symbolic that the forum is conducted on the days when in all regions of Russia and different corners of the world where our compatriots live, melodies of the national holiday of Sabantui personifying youth and renewal of life are sounding. We live in uneasy, but interesting time, time of great opportunities, unprecedented opening, high speeds, steady rapprochement of cultures and civilizations. I am sure you would manage not to lose in these conditions the richest heritage of our ancestors ", is said in the greeting.

Summing up the works of scientific workshops, Chairman of the executive committee of the World Congress of Tatars Rinat Zakirov in particular noted that over 200 delegates and visitors from 50 regions of Russia and 120 delegates from Tatarstan took part in the Forum of the Tatar youth.