Nağaybäks (Nağaybäk pronounced in Tatar language [nʌɣɑɪbæk]; Tatar plural: Nağaybäklär; plural in Russian: Нагайбаки) are an ethnoconfessional group in Russia. They are Christian descendents of Volga Tatars (distinct from Keräşens, another Christian Tatar group), and former cossacks of the Orenburg Host. The majority of the Nağaybäks live in Nagaybaksky and Chebarkulsky Districts of Chelyabinsk Oblast. They speak a sub-dialect of Tatar language's Middle dialect. Russian and Tatar historians usually treat the Nağaybäks as an integral part of Volga Tatars; a minority considers Nağaybäks a separate ethnicity in their own right. During the 1989 and 2002 censuses, 11,200 and 9,600 people identified themselves as Nağaybäks.