








The author provides data on the peoples inhabiting the Nizhny Novgorod Volga region and the peculiarities of their national cuisines. The author analyzes historically formed taste preferences of Tatars, Chuvash, Mari, Mordva, and Russians. The author comes to the conclusion that the common territory, common raw material base and development of economic ties contributed to mutual culinary borrowings.
Keywords: ethnos, traditions, Mordva, Tatars, Mari, national cuisine, cookery, Russian oven, Volga region.
Stryapikhina, Anna Alexandrovna "Gastronomic Traditions and Borrowings of the Peoples of the Nizhny Novgorod Volga Region" Agrarian History, Number 19, 2024 P. 29 - 39. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.13226937