Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sabantuy is a Tatar and Idel-Uralian summer festival, that dates back to the Volga Bulgarian epoch. At first Sabantuy was a festival of farmers in rural areas, but it later became a national holiday and now is widely celebrated in the cities. In 2008, Kazan Sabantuy was celebrated on June 21. Sabantuy ( , [s b n tu ]), or, more correctly, Saban tuy ( , [s b n tu j ]) is a Tatar name for the holiday. Its plural form is Sabantuylar [s b ntu l r]). The holiday is also celebrated by other Turkic peoples living along the Volga. In Bashkir, it is known as Habantuy ( ), in Chuvash as Akatuy ( ). The holiday''s name means "plough''s feast" in Turkic languages. Sometimes, it is also referred to as "plough''s holiday", or Saban bäyräme ( [s b n bæ ræ me]).