January 24 is the day of memory and sorrow of the Bashkir people
On this day in 1736, the tsarist punitive troops under the command of Colonel Aleksei Tevkelev destroyed the entire Bashkir village of Seyantus (Һөyәntүҫ) of Balykchinskaya volost of Siberian road (now it is Askinskiy district of the Republic of Bashkortostan). This massacre is known in history as the Seyantus tragedy.