Descendants of the family reside on the territory of Russia, in the Republics of Tatarstan, Mordovia, Bashkortostan, Uzbekistan, as well as in Turkmenistan.
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It traces its origins to a famous Tatar general Murza Yenikey Tenishevich Kougushev, who lived in the mid-16th century in Kazan, and was also a warlord in 1668 in Temnikov.