Rustam Minnikhanov: the Family tree festival fosters preservation and development of family traditions

On 15 May, speaking at a ceremony summarizing outcomes of the Y family tree festival “The Echo of centuries in the family history” held in the Tatar Academic Theatre in Kazan, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov emphasized that the festival fosters preservation and development of family traditions, strengthening of family ties and raising the interest in history of Tatarstan and one’s own family. 

Six families from the republic reached the final stage of the festival with more than 700 families from 45 regions of Tatarstan having taken part in it during all these years.

Addressing participants of the festival, Rustam Minnikhanov congratulated them with the International Family Day and said: “Today you have won us with your talent, togetherness and love to history of your kin, demonstrated an example what family relations should be and stunned us with family heirloom and lore. Your family history is the support not just for you but for those who follow you – your children, grand- and grand-grandchildren. It is important to keep the memory and pass it to the next generations.”

He said that since olden times it has been said about the Tatars that they should know seven generations of their ancestors. “As years pass by, we start thinking about the past, history of our country, native land and the family more and more often. The family tree not just shows representatives of one kin but makes it possible to feel oneself an integrated part on a single flow of generations replacing one another. It is pleasing that toady taking up history of one’s kin and drawing up a genealogic tree have become extremely popular”, Rustam Minnikhanov concluded.