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UZYANSKOYE RESERVOIR, on the Uzyan River (basin of the Belaya River). The dam site is located 47.8 km from its mouth near Selo Uzyan of Beloretsky Raion. Built in the 2nd half of the 18th century for water supply of the Uzyan Plant. Built in 1985, revamped in 1998. Catchment area of the river in the...

UZUN-KYUY (literally – a long tune), in the Bashk. music folklore refers to a melodic style; a genre of the Bashkir ethnic music. The U.-k. performance is the top-stone of the Bashkirs’ singing art. The U.-k. performers have mostly high male (tenors) and female (soprano) voices. The first samples of...

UZUN-KYUY (literally — a long tune), in the Bashk. music folklore refers to a melodic style; a genre of the Bashk. folk music. The U.‑ k. performance is the top‑stone of the Bashkirs’ singing art. The U.‑k. performers have mostly high male (tenors) and female (soprano) voices. The first samples of U.‑k....

UZLYAU, the Bashkirs solo two-voice guttural singing, in which on the background of low tone (bourdon) there is a high whistling sound of a fioritric nature (combination of overtone sounds and derivatives from the lower tone). Similar to the kuray and kubyz playing technique. The earliest information...

UZLYAU, the Bashkirs solo two‑voice guttural singing, in which on the background of low tone (bourdon) there is a high whistling sound of a fioritric nature (combination of overtone sounds and derivatives from the lower tone). Similar to the kuray and kubyz playing technique. The earliest information...

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...

“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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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,...

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....

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...

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...

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,...