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Abstract. Cinema is the most valuable source in the study of socio-politicalsocio-cultural processes. This explains the popularity of using film documents in the research activities of scholars, including historians. The article provides a brief overview of the content of films made by Kazan filmmakers with an emphasis on films dedicated to the anniversaries of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The author identifies the main ideas promoted by the creators of the film and shows how they changed over time. The propaganda and agitation task, which is present in all films, is emphasized; in the conditions of a national region it was always accompanied by a demonstration of the historical and ethnocultural specifics of the region. Establishing the research activity on the principles of historicism, objectivity, complexity, as well as using the hermeneutic method when interpreting audiovisual sources, it was concluded that newsreel materials can serve as informative source material on the cultural, economic and political life of the republic in the Soviet times.

Keywords: documentary film, audiovisual source, Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Kazan newsreel studio

For citation: Galimzyanova A.T. (2024) Informative opportunities of audiovisual sources in exploration of the history and culture of the Tatar people. Istoricheskaya etnologiya [Historical Ethnology]. Vol. 9. No. 2: 174–183. https://doi.org/10.22378/he.2024-9-2.174-183 (In Russ.)

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About the author: Alina T. Galimzyanova, Cand. Sc. (History), Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Contemporary History, Marjani Institute of History of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences (7 Baturin St., Kazan 420111, Russian Federation); https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1988-0522; e-mail: alisabitva@mail.ru

Received 16.02.2024 Revised 25.02.2024   Accepted for publication 29.03.2024

Published Online 23.07.2024