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As a separate nation, the people of Barbara are indicated in the censuses of 1897 and 1926 . According to the 1897 census, the number of Barabinians was 4,433. In 1926, their number was determined at 7528 people. According to ethnographers, in 1971 the number of Barabinians was 8,380 people ^[4] . According to the Institute of Philology of the SB RAS, in the Novosibirsk Region in 2012, about 8,000 Barbara Tatars lived. ^{[5] The} 2010 All-Russian Population Census took into account citizens who identified themselves as “baraba” as part of a broader ethnographic group — the Siberian Tatars. As a result of this, there are currently no reliable data on the number of people who identify themselves as “Barbara Tatars”. The process of assimilation continues among immigrants from Siberian-Tatar auls, on the one hand, within the Tatar nation, and on the other hand, with the Russian majority. There is another point of view - that the newcomers of the Volga-Ural Tatars, on the contrary, assimilate with the Baraba Tatars in places of compact residence of the latter and speak the Baraba dialect in everyday life. ^[6]

In 1628 , an uprising broke out of the Barabintsy, outraged by the arbitrariness and requisitions on the part of the Siberian governor . The rebel princes of the Barabintsy, Kogutey, Kushluduk and Enbai, were in charge. The rebels destroyed a small Cossack detachment, consisting of 18 Cossacks, led by the son of the boyars . They killed several collectors of yasak , burned one of the prison camps and robbed the settlement of other Tatars, who remained faithful to the Russian authorities. After that, the rebels migrated away from the borders of Russian possessions to the lands of Teleuts in the Upper Ob. ^[7]

On the 21st (February) we again went and arrived in Baraba, which is a large desert through which we had to go to Tomsk. In winter, this desert is inhabited by a horde of Tatars, whom the Russians call the Baraba Tatars and which disperse in the summer along the Tara River and other small rivers. They are pagans, and they live so poorly that they can be compared more with cattle than with people. In their dug-out dwellings about a elbow, a fence rises, covered with straw, where they hold a human-carved idol. He is about a half in length and stands in a small drawer and is dressed in different rags. They promise this shaitan (such is his name) a hat or collar if he helps to get a rich catch on the hunt.

Their food consists of dry fish and dry flour, drinks are extracted from melted snow, because in the desert you can not find other water. They keep little livestock, with the exception of horses that walk through the forest and find their food under the snow. For a little tobacco, which they love very much, you can get everything you need; money, on the contrary, they do not value. Their clothes, hats and stockings consist of pieces of fur sewn together.

They treat their wounds with a tinder, which they light and allow it to burn in the affected area, and seem so insensitive, as if they were not experiencing heat. They annually pay tribute to both the tsar and the Kantush, like other Tatars. Probably, this nation comes from the Ostyaks, who have their usual abode on the Ob River, especially since both of them venerate shaitan. March 7th, we arrived at the Tomi River. And they entered the city of Tomsk, where the river is divided and flows on both sides of it, connecting at the end of the city again and flowing into the Ob river "... ^[8]

• Baraba Tatars
• Baraba tatars