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URAL
“URAL”, the Bashkir ethnic 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...
URAL-BATYR
“URAL-BATYR” is an ethnic sesen school n.a. A.S. Gaynullina. Founded in 1994 as a club of young sesens called “U.b.”, which based at Bashkir school № 13, since 2005 was based at the Center of ethnic culture and leisure (both in Sibay c.), in 2015 it received the title “national” from Sibay college of...
URAL-BATYR
“URAL-BATYR”, Bashkir State Academic Drama Theater performance based on the same-titled play by G.G. Shafikov (based on Bashkir ethnic epic “Ural‑batyr”, translated by A. Utyabay into the Bashkir language). It premiered in September 2006. Director – R.M. Khakimov, production designer – E. Gizatullin,...
URAL-BATYR
“URAL-BATYR” a r e g i o n a l c o n t e s t o f y o u n g s t o r y t e l l e r s a n d p e r f o r m e r s o f t h e e p i c. Initially, it was held on the initiative of the Department of Education of Burzyansky district (Novomunasipovo school in 1996, 1998, and 2000), school No. 13 of Sibay,...
URAL-BATYR
“URAL-BATYR”, a monument of Bashkir literature, epic. The main version (has poem-prose form) was registered in 1910 by M.A. Burangulov from Gabit-sesen and K.K. Almukhametov. The prose version of “U.-b.” was registered by A.I. Kharisov. The epic shows a fantasy world where the characters have superpowers...
URAL-BATYR
URAL-BATYR is a character of Bashkir folklore. He is the younger son of Yanbirde and Yanbike in “Ural-batyr” epic (see First ancestor), the first human (mortal), the antagonist of his elder brother Shulgan. The image of U.-b. includes his different characteristics and actions. However, the positive...
URYAK
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,...
USMANOV Abubakir Nurianovich
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...
UZAK-TUZAK – THE LAST OF BALABASHNYAK FAMILY
“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
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...
UZLYAU
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...
UZUN-KYUY
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...
VAKHITOV Yangali Arslanovich
VAKHITOV Yangali Arslanovich (5.10. 1932–3.10.2003), dancer. V.’s characteristic and ceremonial folk dances were known for romanticism, conciseness, and special internal expression. Emotionality and clarity of the rhythms made the V.’s performance of dance “Baik” stand out. Author of more than 10 dances...
VALEYEV Damir Zhavatovich
VALEYEV Damir Zhavatovich (2.1.1940– 28.5.2002), philosopher, public figure. Corre sponding member of the AS RB (1991), Doctor of Philosophy (1984), Professor (1987). His re search is devoted to ethics, federalism and sovereignty, and to the history of public thinking in Bashkortostan. Collector...
VALEYEV Zinnat Valeyevich
VALEYEV Zinnat Valeyevich [1.5.1902 (acc. to other data, 1903)–16.5.1997], storyteller. Participant of the Great Patriotic War. He spoke Turkic, Arabic, and Persian languages and was skillful with words. In the 1970s, from the narrations of V., A.M. Suleymanov recorded about 10 works, including the...
VASILYEV Valerian Mikhailovich
VASILYEV Valerian Mikhailovich (1.1.1883– 2.5.1961), philologist, folklorist. Doctor of Philology (1957). The founder of Mari linguistics, folklore; one of the first Mari writers. Author of more than 250 research papers. Compiled the collections “Mari folk songs, riddles, and fairy tales” (1908), “Mari...
VASTOMA
“VASTOMA” (“Meeting”), Mordovian folk lore and ethnographic ensemble at Sadovka ru ral culture house of Sterlitamak district of RB. Established in 1993. In 2003, it earned the title “People’s”. The founder and artistic director is N.E. Artamonov. The repertoire lists more than 60 songs, including...
VESKELI
VESKELI is an Udmurt wedding ritual chant (see Family and household ritual poetry). Before the bride leaves her parent’s house, a chest with her dowry is taken to the middle of the house. At this moment women begin sing ing farewell V. song. The bride goes 3 times around the table in the Sun direction,...
VIKAR László
VIKAR László (8.6.1929–12.5.2017), ethnomusicologist, folklorist. Professor (1980). His research is devoted to the study of the traditional musical culture of the Finno-Ugric and Turkic peoples of the Volga region. Together with G. Bereczki in the 1960–70s, he collected materials on folk music in...
VILDANOV Gabdelakhat Fazlyevich
VILDANOV Gabdelakhat Fazlyevich (6.2. 1879–9.2.1954), linguist, ethnographer, folklorist. His research was focused on the study of folklore and ethnography of the Bashkirs as well as theoretical and applied Bashkir linguistics. Compiled the collection “Bashkir Riddles” (1927); one of the authors of...
