Later, on January 12th 2023, another monument to Khan Kotrag, was installed in Shiryaev on Popova Hill. The monument was made by the famous Bulgarian sculptor Dishko Dishkov. The official opening is scheduled for spring.[5]
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Opening of the monument to Khan Kotrag in the Chuvash Republic, the village of Shemursha, in memory of the founder of the Volga Bulgaria. July, 30. 2022
Monument to the founder of the Volga Bulgaria Khan Kotrag in the Chuvash Republic
↑"Bulgar | people". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 2018-09-04. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
↑"BULGARIAN HELSINKI COMMITTEE"(PDF). Archived(PDF) from the original on 2018-09-04. Retrieved 2018-09-04. After the death of Kubrat, however, the newly founded and still unstable state collapsed and the Bulgar tribes started a new diaspora. Part of them settled permanently on the territories of the former Great Bulgaria; others, under the leadership of Kubrat's son Kotrag, headed northward and established themselves in the area of the Volga River. Available historical data points out that in X century the Kotragian Bulgars adopted Islam as their religion while preserving their Turkic language.
↑"Kotrag Nunatak". SCAR Composite Gazetteer. Retrieved 2018-09-04. Named after Khan Kotrag, founder of the Kingdom of Volga Bulgaria in the 7th Century AD.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
