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ALPHABET
ALPHABET, a system of graphical characters – letters, conveying the sound image of the language by means of symbols, representing individual sound elements. Bashkirs used family signs before alphabetic writing, they were familiar with runic writing. With the adoption of Islam, the Arabic script began...
ALPHABET
ALPHABET, a system of graphical characters – letters, conveying the sound image of the language by means of symbols, representing individual sound elements. Bashkirs used family signs before alphabetic writing, they were familiar with
runic writing. With the adoption of Islam, the Arabic script began...
ALSHEYEVSKY RAION
ALSHEYEVSKY RAION, located in the SW of the RB. Established on January 31st, 1935. Territory – 2,415 km2. Adm. centre – Selo Rayevsky, which is located 125 km SW of Ufa. Population – 38.4 thous. people (2017). In 2017 the area of agricultural lands amounted to 185 thous. ha (77% of the total area),...
ALTITUDINAL ZONATION OF LANDSCAPES
ALTITUDINAL ZONATION OF LANDSCAPES, the regular change of landscapes in the mountains with the change of altitude is similar to that of the latitudinal natural zones. With the growth of absolute altitude, the following parameters change: air temperature, the quantity of atmospheric precipitations, atmospheric...
ALTYN SOLOK
ALTYN SOLOK (Golden Wild Hive), zoological wildlife reserve of 90.7 thous. ha in the territory of Burzyansky Raion. Organized to protect and restore the population of the Bashkir bee (1997). In 2012, it was included in Bashkir Ural Biosphere Reserve. Within the territory of A.S. there is Masim Mountain...
ALTYNBIKA Fauziya Galimovna
ALTYNBIKA Fauziya Galimovna (real name Kutlugildina; b. 7.1.1952), storyteller. Folk sesen (2018). Author of 8 books of poetry, which include aytyshs, beyets, munazhats, nasikhats, kubairs, fairy tales, legends, etc. K’s poems were made into songs by Kh.Kh. Dilmukhametov, M.M. Sufiyanova, F. Kh. Uzyanbayeva...
ALYABIEV Aleksandr Aleksandrovich
ALYABIEV Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (15.8.1787–6.3.1851), Russian composer. Participant of the Patriotic War of 1812. A. laid the foundation of Russian musical Orientalism, created a number of works using elements of the musical folklore of the peoples of the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Southern Urals....
ALYAN
ALYAN, a mountain, a natural monument (2003). Located 4 km W of Selo Abzanovo of Zianchurinsky Raion. Abs. alt. — 359 m. There are caves; the slopes are steep. There are rare species of plants: Astragalus helmii, Stipa korshinskyi, Fritillaria ruthenica, Galatella divaricata, Tulipa Biebersteiniana,...
AMANTAY (Amantayev) Gabdulla Gareyevich
AMANTAY (Amantayev) Gabdulla Gareyevich (23.2.1907, Derevnya VerkhneKunakbayevo of Orenb. Uyezd of the same name gub. (now Selo Verkhne Kunakbay of Perevolotsky Raion of Orenb. Obl.) – 10.7.1938), Writer and Philologist. Member of the Union of Writers of the BASSR. Graduated from the Leningrad Institute...
AMANTAY (Amantayev), Gabdulla Gareyicevh
AMANTAY (Amantayev), Gabdulla Gareyicevh (23.2.1907, Derevnya Verkhne-Kunakbayevo of Orenb. Uyezd of the same name gub. (now Selo Verkhne-Kunakbay of Perevolotsky Raion of Orenb. Obl.) — 10.7.1938), Writer and Philologist. Member of the Union of Writers of the BASSR. Studied in the Khusainiya Madrasa....
AMATEUR ART GROUPS
AMATEUR ART GROUPS is one of the forms of individual and collective folk art. Implies the creation and execution of art works by amateurs. Participants of the amateur art groups are either members of various art teams under the cultural and leisure institutions, educational institutions and other organizations...
AMBASSADORS OF THE URALS
AMBASSADORS OF THE URALS (Ural Ilselere), the opera by Z.G.Ismagilov in 3 acts based on the drama of I.I.Dilmukhametov Living Land. Written in 1981. The premiere took place on March 30th, 1982 on the stage of the Palace of Culture and Technology of OAO UZEMIK (libretto by Dilmukhametov, music director...
AMINEV Zakiryan Galimyanovich
AMINEV Zakiryan Galimyanovich (b. 30.1. 1954), philosopher, ethnographer. Candidate of Philosophy (2010). His research is devoted to mythology, preIslamic worldview, and traditional culture of the Bashkirs. Author of more than 200 research papers....
AMIROV, Gilvan Gilmutdinovich
AMIROV, Gilvan Gilmutdinovich (12.5. 1916, Ufa – 1.6.1991, Ibid.), Cameraman. Merited Cultural Worker of the RSFSR (1977), Merited Artist of the BASSR (1948). Completed a training course at the Vostokkino Yalta Film Factory (1932). Between 1933–41, he worked as an assistant cameraman at the Ufa Newsreel...
AMIROV, Mubarakyan Vasfiyevich
AMIROV, Mubarakyan Vasfiyevich [3.7. 1886, Derevnya Burayevo of Birsky Uyezd of Ufa Gub. (Burayevsky Raion of the RB) – 7.3.1968, Ufa], Librarian, Bibliographer. After graduating from the Gusmaniya madrassa (Ufa, 1906), he worked as a teacher at rural schools. Since 1911 – worked at Shark...
AMPHIBIANS
AMPHIBIANS (Amphibia), a class of vertebrates. There are about 4500 known species. There are tailed and tail less orders of A. with 12 species. They have body length range of 4–12 cm. Adult species eat animal food, while larvae eat small invertebrates and sea weed. A. lead aquatic, paraaquatic and terrestrial...
AMZINSKY LESOKOMBINAT
AMZINSKY LESOKOMBINAT, AO. Performs the full production cycle: harvesting, mechanical and added-value chemical processing of wood. Produces merchantable wood, lumber, solid wood furniture, board parquet, firewood, trim molding, charcoal, ethyl acetate, wood resin, activated carbon, vinegar acid, etc....
ANCIENT UFA
ANCIENT UFA, a Republican history and culture museum and reserve. Located in Ufa. Founded in 2011 in order to preserve, popularize and study the Gorodishche Ufa II archeological artifact of federal significance. Dating back to the 4th and 14th centuries AD, this artifact is the main cultural heritage...
ANIKIN Vladimir Prokopyevich
ANIKIN Vladimir Prokopyevich (6.8.1924– 25.9.2018), folklorist. Doctor of Philology (1974). Honored Professor of MSU. His research is devoted to the study of the history and theory of folklore, genres of Russian folklore, and folklore in the works of Russian writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. He...
ANIMALS AND BIRDS CULT
ANIMALS AND BIRDS CULT, zoolatry, religious veneration based on the concept of a certain kinship between man and a totem animal or bird, endowing supernatural properties to it (ref. Totemism, Cult of ancestors). Having changed, it partially survived and found reflection in the various aspects of culture.
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