The Chats ( tt-Cyrl, чат татарлары, sty, цат татарлар, цаттыр) — are one of the three subgroups of
Tom Tatar group of
Siberian Tatars
Siberian Tatars ( sty, , ), the ethnographic and ethnoterritorial group of Tatars of Western Siberia, the indigenous Turkic-speaking population of the forests and steppes of Western Siberia, originate in areas stretching from somewhat east of ...
. Their traditional areas of settlement are on the rivers
Ob, Chik, Uen', and Chaus in
Kozhevnikovsky District
Kozhevnikovsky District (russian: Коже́вниковский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #271-OZ and municipalLaw #202-OZ district (raion), one of the sixteen in Tomsk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast. Th ...
,
Tomsk Oblast
Tomsk Oblast (russian: То́мская о́бласть, ''Tomskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It lies in the southeastern West Siberian Plain, in the southwest of the Siberian Federal District. Its administrative cen ...
, and in
Kolyvansky and
Moshkovsky districts,
Novosibirsk Oblast since the 8th century, later also on the territory of modern
Shegarsky,
Tomsky,
Kochenyovsky,
Bolotninsky,
Novosibirsky,
Toguchinsky,
Iskitimsky,
Ordynsky districts, and in the cities of
Tomsk
Tomsk ( rus, Томск, p=tomsk, sty, Түң-тора) is a city and the administrative center of Tomsk Oblast in Russia, located on the Tom River. Population:
Founded in 1604, Tomsk is one of the oldest cities in Siberia. The city is a not ...
,
Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk (, also ; rus, Новосиби́рск, p=nəvəsʲɪˈbʲirsk, a=ru-Новосибирск.ogg) is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and Siberian Federal District in Russia. As of the Russian Census ...
, and
Berdsk.
The Chats (along with other related groups) are Sunni Muslims.
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Siberian Tatars
Novosibirsk Oblast
Tomsk Oblast
Indigenous peoples of North Asia