On the Implementation of Multilingual Education in the Republic of Tatarstan (based on the results of a sociological study)

The article is devoted to the implementation of multilingualism in the Republic of Tatarstan, which has established itself as the flagship of innovation in many industries, including education. The empirical data are the results of the scientific and applied research "The Tatar language in the multilingual education system of the Republic of Tatarstan", conducted in 2024. This article examines the issues of the implementation of bilingual and multilingual education in Tatarstan through the description of the vision of teachers of the Tatar language of multilingual and non-multilingual educational organizations of various aspects of the introduction of ideas of polylingualism into the education system, the degree of its relevance for the preservation and development of the Tatar language. To form an objective idea of the quality of the implementation of multilingualism in Tatarstan, the results obtained in the course of scientific and applied research are compared with the key provisions of the Concept of the multilingual educational complex "Adymnar the path to knowledge and harmony", approved by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan in 2019 [1].