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KUBYZ
KUBYZ, a Bashkir selfsounding reed musical instrument. Made of metal or wood (rarely bone), about 8 cm long. Metal K. is a horseshoe with tapering ends. The middle holds a thin steel reed with a curved end; a wooden one holds a rectangular plate made of birch or maple with a reed cut in it. When playing...
KUBYZ
KUBYZ, a Bashk. idiophonic reed mus. instrument. Made of metal or wood (more rarely of animal bone), length – approx. 8 cm. Metal K. is a horseshoe with narrowing ends, the middle of which a thin steel tongue with a curved end is attached. Wooden K. — a rectangular plate of birch or maple with a reed...
KUBAIR
KUBAIR, 1) is a glorifying song (from Bashkir “koba” – excellent, glorified and “yir” – song); 2) is a clan’s or tribe’s song, is an equivalent of “heroic song” or “heroic epic” terms. K. poetry has 7th meter structure. The stanzas vary from 4 to 30 or more lines with pair or mixed rhyme. The...
KUBAIR
KUBAIR, 1) a poetic genre of the Bashk. folklore and oral tradition. The earliest of the surviving K. go back to the 14th century. Yyrau and sesens were creators of K. The K. verse is based on the 7‑step metre. The number of strophes ranges from 4 to 30 or more lines with a plain or mixed rhyme. Usually...
KUBAGUSH‑SESEN
KUBAGUSH‑SESEN, Bashkir poet-improviser. The name K.S. is mentioned in the fables such as “Kubagush-Sesen”, “Karas and Karasakal”, the ulyane of a Kazakh akyn Bisyanbay. According to fable “Kubagush-Sesan”, K.S. lived in the late 15th to mid-16th centuries. He initiated the accession of Bashkortostan...
KUALA
KUALA are ancestral and family sanctuar ies of Udmurts, where people worshiped the clan’s protectors – voshshud spirits. They look like small wooden buildings with earth floor, without ceiling and windows and with a 2pitched roof. There is an open stone hearth with a cauldron hung above it or installed...
KRYKTYTAU
KRYKTYTAU (in translation from Bashkir — forty (many) mountains; according to other data, has cut), a ridge. It is extended submeridionally from the latitude of the mouths of rivers Kulsugady and Shekaryelga (tributaries of the Maliy Kizil River) to the latitudinal flow of the B.Kizil River in Beloretsky...
KRUPSKAYA, Nadezhda Konstantinovna
KRUPSKAYA, Nadezhda Konstantinovna (14.2.1869, St. Petersburg — 27.2.1939, Moscow), Stateswoman, Teacher. Merited Member of the AS USSR (1931), Dr. of Pedagogical Sciences (1936). Awarded with the Order of Lenin (1935), Order of the Red Banner of Labour. Graduated from the Knyaginya (Princess) A.A.Obolenskaya’...
KRUGLYASHOVA Vera Petrovna
KRUGLYASHOVA Vera Petrovna (24.8. 1923–26.10.2001), folklorist, philologist. Doctor of Philology (1977), Professor (1978). Her research is devoted to the non-fairytale folk prose of the mining districts of the Urals and the problems of field folklore. Author of more than 50 research papers. The materials...
KRONOSPAN BASHKORTOSTAN
KRONOSPAN BASHKORTOSTAN, OOO (Selo Mikhailovka of Ufimsky Raion of the RB). Produces high quality chipboard and laminated chipboard. Founded in 2012.
KREX
KREX, a tourist company, OOO. Founded in 1992 in Ufa. Main areas of activity are: organization of rest and recreation tours in the RB, RF and abroad, social tourism and health activities for children in the RF and RB, organization of sightseeing tours in the RF, RB and the city of Ufa. It is the main...
KRAVCHUK, Igor Alexandrovich
KRAVCHUK, Igor Alexandrovich (b.13.9.1966 in Ufa), Athlete. Merited Sports Master (ice hockey) of the USSR (1988). Awarded with the Order of Honour (2011). A trainee of the Salavat Yulayev Specialist Children and Youth Sports School of the Olympic Reserve (Coach – V.I.Vorobyov). He played in the Salavat...
KRAUSE, Konstantin Pavlovich
KRAUSE, Konstantin Pavlovich (8.2.1877, Rzhavets of Kaluga Obl. — 9.9.1964, Ufa), Pedagogue. Full Professor (1930). Awarded with the Order of Lenin (1953), Order of the Badge of Honour (1944). Graduated from the St. Petersburg University (1904). Since 1905, a Teacher in the 2nd girl’s high school in...
KRASNY YAR
“KRASNY YAR”, Russian historical and cultural center, public organization, branch of the House of Peoples’ Friendship. It was created in 1998 in the village Krasny Yar of Ufa district of the RB in order to preserve and revive the rites, folklore, and folk crafts of the Russian people. Russian culture...
KRASNY PROLETARY
KRASNY PROLETARY, AO (Sterlitamak). Manufactures (more than 25 types) and performs the overhaul repair of oilfield, drilling and geologic exploration equipment for oil production and transportation, maintenance of oil fields. Founded in 1941 as K.p. Plant in place of the namesake plant, evacuated from...
KRASNY KLYUCH
KRASNY KLYUCH, Ak shishma, the world’s largest karst spring, a natural monument (1965). Located on the left slope of the Ufa River valley, on the outskirts of Selo Krasny Klyuch of Nurimanovsky Raion. It is surfacing powerful karst waters, discharged into 2 communicating karst lakes of greenish‑bluish...
KRASNOV, Sergey Borisovich
KRASNOV, Sergey Borisovich (31.8.1948 in Ufa — 16.6.2020, Ibid.), Painter. The full member of the Russian Academy of Arts (2007). People’s (2008) and Merited (1998) Artist of the RB. A representative of the analytical direction and metaphysical romanticism in the Fine Arts of Bashkortostan. K.’s creative...
KRASNOUSOLSK
KRASNOUSOLSK, a balneological health resort. Located in Gafuriysky Raion of the RB, 36 km away from Beloye Ozero Railway Station and 5 km NE of Selo Krasnousolskoye. Opened in 1924 (between 1939—44 Balneological Experimental Station). It is a centre for treatment of diseases of the digestive tract,...
KRASNOKAMSKY RAION
KRASNOKAMSKY RAION, located in the NW of the RB. Established on August 20, 1930 as Nikolo‑Beryozovsky Raion. Abolished on February 20, 1932, territory became part of Kaltasinsky Raion. Newly established on January 31, 1935 under the current name. Abolished on February 1, 1963, territory transferred...
KRASNIKOV, Nikolay Olegovich
KRASNIKOV, Nikolay Olegovich (b.4.2.1985 in Shadrinsk), Athlete. Merited Master of Sports (ice motor racing) of Russia (2008). Awarded with the Order of Salavat Yulayev (2004). A trainee of the Sports Technical Club (Shadrinsk; Coach – S.N.Shutov), since 2001 he has been competing for the G.Kadyrov...
