Qışqar (Tatar: Кышкар, romanized: Qışqar, Russian: Кшкар) is a rural locality (a selo) in Arça District, Tatarstan.

[1] Qışqar is located 31 km northwest of Arça, district's administrative centre, and 97 km northeast of Qazan, republic's capital, by road.

From the 17th to first half of the 19th centuries village's residents belonged to the social estate of state peasants.

[3] By the beginning of the twentieth century, village had 2 mosques, a madrasa, a windmill and 4 small shops.

Since 1920 was a part of Arça Canton; after the creation of districts in Tatar ASSR (Tatarstan) in Tuqay (later Ätnä) (1930–1959), Tuqay (former Qızıl Yul) (1959–1963) and Arça districts.