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URAL, a volleyball team. Being set up in Ufa in 1992 it had the name Neftyanik Bashkirii, since 2001 — Neftyanik Bashkortostana, since 2007 has its current name. The team plays in the Russian Championship among men’s super league teams. iit is based at the Dynamo Stadium. U. — the Silver Medalist of...

URAL, the Bashk. folk song, uzun‑kyuy. The song was first recorded by M.A.Burangulov in 1915, published in the Bashkort Khalk Yirdary digest recorded by H.F.Akhmetov. Lyric and epic song. In the song, the Ural image symbolizes the Motherland. According to the legend, the emergence of U. goes back to...

URALTAU, a landscape wildlife reserve of area 52.4 thous. ha in the territory of Uchalinsky Raion. It was organized to protect the heads of Belaya and Ural rivers and the surrounding natural complex (1981). In the territory of U. there are numerous swamps, including Kiryabinskoye and Tygynskoye swamps;...

URALTAU (in translation from Bashkir — “belt mountains”), a ridge. Length — approx. 300 km, width of the southern and northern part — 10—12 km, central part — 20—22 km, abs. alt. — 1,068 m (Arvyakryaz Mountain). Summits of height 600—1,068 m (Agastat, Barangul, Kurtashtau, Talishinsky Kamen, etc) are...

URALTECHNOSTROY CORPORA­TION, OOO (Ufa). Involved in the development, manufacture and installation of process equipment of block-modular design for development of oil and gas fields, etc. Manufactures pumping stations, gas field equipment, oil, fuel and associated gas treatment plants, flare, mobile...

URAZBAYEV, Nasyr Rafikovich [3.4.1902, Derevnya Utyakovo of Sterlitamaksky Uyezd of Ufa Gub. (Gafuriysky Raion of the RB) – 31.1.1981, Ufa], Statesman. Merited Master of Sciences and Technology of the BASSR (1962). Awarded with the Order of Lenin (1944, 1949), Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1943,...

URAZMETOV, Akhat Salikhovich (9.12.1931, Selo Kalmashevo of Chishminsky Raion of the BASSR — 2.7.2015, Ufa, buried in his homeland), Variety Artist. People’s Artist of the BASSR (1977), Merited Artist of the RSFSR (1983) and BASSR (1967). After graduating from the Bashk. Theatre Art School (1951), he...

URBAN DEVELOPMENT. U.d. in Bashkortostan begins after the accession of Bashkortostan to Russia, when in the central and north western areas of the region there begins construction of fortresses and fortifications. The first project plans of Ufa (1803, 1809, 1819; were done by architect V.I.Geste and...

URGUN, a lake in the basin of the Ural River, a natural monument (1965). Located 6 km N of Selo Uchaly. Surface area — 9.16 km2, length — 4.4 km, aver. width — 1.9 km (max. — 2.5 km), aver. depth — 5.2 m (max. — 7.7 m), volume of water — 47.6 million m3. Tectonic, there are sapropels at the bottom....

URYAK is a spirit, a ghost of a person died an unnatural death in Bashkir mythology. According to belief, it lives in places of death or burial of people. It appears to people (usually at night) and looks like a tall thin man dressed in long white gown. It moves silently. Mostly it comes to murderers,...

URZHUMSKIYE MINERAL SPRINGS, a natural monument (1965). Located in the Chukuda River valley (tributary of the Bir River), 4 km E of Selo Malosukhoyazovo of Birsky Raion. There are 6 artesian springs located 300 m from one another. The total discharge rate is 12 l/s. The water is salty, mineralized (5—11.9...

USATU-SAT, an artificial micro‑satellite of the Earth; the first research and academic satellite in the RB (2009). In 2007–09, USATU developed its useful load, the platform was designed by Polyot Design Bureau in Omsk. It was launched together with MSU satellite Tatyana‑2 from Baykonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan)...

USEN-IVANOVSKY, a botanical wildlife reserve. It was organized to protect and restore the basic types of forests of the Belebey Upland (1991). Located in the territory of Belebeyevsky and Davlekanovsky raions. Territory – 12.0 thous. ha. Within the territory of the wildlife reserve there is a part of...

USMANOV Abubakir Nurianovich (24.4. 1910–13.6.1982), historian, folklorist. Candidate of History (1960). His research is devoted to the history of the accession of Bashkortostan to Russia, the participation of Bashkirs in the Patriotic War of 1812 and the Peasant War of 1773–75. Author of more than...

USPENSKY, Gleb Ivanovich (25.10.1843, Tula – 6.4.1902, St. Petersburg), Writer. Author of the following essays: Morals of Rasteryayeva Street (1866), From the Village Diary, the Razoreniye collection of novels, etc. In 1889, he visited Orenburg and Ufa guberniyas. His impressions about the trip formed...

UTYASHEV, Farid Zainullayevich (b.15.11.1947 in Sovetsk of Kaliningrad Obl.), Mechanical Engineer. Associate Member of the AS RB (2012), Dr. of Engineering (1992). Merited Inventor of the RB (1997). Graduated from the UAI (1972) and since 1974 worked there (since 1987 in spec. design and engineering...

UTYASHEV, Khurmatulla Gazzaleyevich (p.23.11.1959, Derevnya Sultanguzino of Khaibullinsky Raion of the BASSR, now Derevnya Tashtugai of Khaibullinsky Raion of the RB), Actor. People’s Artist of the RF (2008) and RB (1995), Merited Artist of the RF (1998) and RB (1992). Laureate of the RB State Award...

UY (in translation from Bashkir — valley), a river, a left tributary of the Tobol River (basin of the Ob River). Length — 420 km, basin area within the RB — 720 km2. The length of U. in the territory of the RB is 42 km. The relief is represented by medium‑altitude mountains, it is dismembered by valleys,...

“UZAK-TUZAK – THE LAST OF BALABASHNYAK FAMILY”, monument of Bashkir literature, epic. It has poetic and prose form. It was registered in 1981 in Yunusovo village, Mechetlinskiy District, BASSR by N.D. Shunkarov from R.M. Akhtarov. The epic shows the struggle between Polovtsians and Pechenegs, the defeat...

UZBEK ETHNIC CULTURAL CENTER i n  B a s h k o r t o s t a n, a NGO established in Ufa in 2003. Establishes and maintains contacts with Uzbek communities in other Russian regions, and with Uzbekistan. Folk bands from Uzbekistan that performed in Ufa by invitation from the center: “Navruz” folk instruments...