Nagaibak

*Population estimates for 1994

The Nagaibak are a numerous ethnic group of the Tatars living in the Verkhneuralsk district of Chelyabinsk region and in Bashkortostan. The language of the Nagaibak is Tatar with some Bashkir loans. The Nagaibak are descendants of the Nogai Tatars who did not leave the native territories with the main part of Nogai Orda, but settled on the Ik River (Kama River tributary) after the fall of Kazan and annexation of Bashkiria to the Russian Empire. After the vection of the Nagaibak fortress in 1736, the Nagaibak were formed into the Nagaibak Cossacks. In the 1840s a part of the Nagaibak were moved to the territory of the present Chelyabinsk region in Russia.

By their culture and household the Nagaibak are akin to Tatars.

Nagaibak believers are Orthodox (baptized in the second half of the sixteenth century).