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BAYAS
“BAYAS”, is a Bashkir ethnic song, uzun-kuy. The melody is first registered by G.Z. Suleymanov and published in his book “Kuray” (1985). The song is lyroepic. According to the legend, Bayas, the head man of the yurt commune, who lived in the Kuseevo village of Orskiy District (Baymakskiy District of...
BAYBULDIN Ilgam Khannanovich
BAYBULDIN Ilgam Khannanovich (b.22.8. 1973, Saitbaba village, Gafuriyskiy district, RB), quaray player, improviser. National sesen of RB (2018). Honored RB culture worker (2014). Graduated from Ufa college of art (1994), Ufa State Institute of Arts (2000). Since 1994, he has been living and working...
BAYT
BAYT (from Arab. “beyt” – couplet), is a Bashkir (beyet) and Tatar (beet) epic, lyro-epic and lyrical genre of folk and ethnic poetry; Chuvashes call it (peyt, peyet) and consider as a kind of a ballad. It can be oral or written and combines features of folklore and literature. B. plots are tragic,...
BAYT OF THE FRENCH WAR
“BAYT OF THE FRENCH WAR”, “ B a y t o f t h e F r e n c h w a r o f 1 8 1 2”, Bashkir bayt. First registered in 1967 by N.D. Shunkarov in the Verkhniy Muynak village of Zianchurinskiy District of BASSR from Gubaydulla Khamidullin, published (“Bashkir ethnic art. Bayts”; 1978). The work is ironical...
BAYT OF THE RUSSIAN‑GERMAN WAR
“BAYT OF THE RUSSIAN‑GERMAN WAR”, “Ba y t o f t h e G e r m a n w a r”, Bashkir bayt. The poetic text was first written down in 1940 (the author of the writing and the informant are unknown) and published in “Bashkort khayk izhady”. Bayt’s chant has not been preserved. The origin is connected with...
BEAR'S HOLIDAY
BEAR'S HOLIDAY, is a calendar ritual. Its origin is connected with ancient pagan beliefs (see Cults, Totemism). The image of a bear is common for many peoples of the world. Udmurts perform the B.d. dirung Maslenitsa period. Somebody was dressed up in an inside-out fur coat (as an image of a bear) and...
BELARUSIAN ETHNIC CULTURAL CENTER
BELARUSIAN ETHNIC CULTURAL CENTER i n B a s h k o r t o s t a n, a NGO established in Ufa in 1996. Under the auspices of the BECC, Belarusian Historical Cultural Center is organized in Baltika village, Iglinskiy District, Bashkortostan, the Belarusian language is studied at school. Participated in the...
BELARUSIAN FOLKLORE
с of the Bashkortostan republic has variety of genres: fairy tales, legends, lore, historical short stories, bylichkas, songs, aphoristic genres. Belarusian fairytales (household, magic, f. about animals) and songs appeared in the territory of Bash kortostan mostly as a result of the immigration of...
BELARUSIAN HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CENTER
BELARUSIAN HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CENTER o f t h e R B, a public organization, branch of the House of Peoples’ Friendship. It was established in 2006 in the village Baltika in Iglinsky district of the RB in order to safeguard and develop the traditions, rituals, and customs of Belarusians, and study...
BELIEF
BELIEF, 1) is a faith in supernatural phenomena; a constituent of mythology; 2) is a prediction (foresight) based on a mystical connection of events in a person’s life with certain phenomena (see Sign). B. reflect the type of household activities of people, their worldview, psychology, traditions and...
BELORETSKIY (Larionov) Grigoriy Prokopyevich
BELORETSKIY (Larionov) Grigoriy Prokopyevich (19.1.1879–6.3.1913), writer, folklorist, doctor. Collected and studied the oral poetry of factory workers. Wrote the essays “Guslyar Storyteller in the Ural Region” and “Factory Poetry” (both dated 1902), which included 500 chastushkas collected in the...
BELYAYEV Timofey Savelyevich
BELYAYEV Timofey Savelyevich (1768– 1864; according to other sources, 1846). He was a serf and private secretary of landowner N.I. Timashev. B. knew the Bashkir language and folklore well. He penned in Russian the Bashkir epic “Kuzyy-kurpyas and Mayan-khylu”, published in 1812 under the title “Kuz...
BENEVOLENCE
BENEVOLENCE is a set laconic verbal formulaexpression of ceremonial folklore. It exists in the folklore of many peoples. Its origin is connected with ancient beliefs in the magic of words. It is uttered in crucial moments of a person’s life (birth, wedding, funeral, start of end of important business)...
BERECZKI Gábor
BERECZKI Gábor (24.3.1928–4.4.2012), Hungarian linguist, folklorist. Doctor of Philology (1987). His research relates to the study of the language and folklore of the FinnoUgric and Turkic peoples of the Volga region. In 1950–60, together with L. Vikár, he collected materials on language, folklore,...
BERKAZAN
“BERKAZAN”, children’s ensemble of kuray performers of Davlekanovo district house of culture. Established in 1988 at Mikyashevo branch of Davlekanovo Children’s School of Arts. In 2003, it earned the title “exemplary”; in 2015, it became an honored folkart team of RB. The founder and artistic director...
BESSONOV Alexander Grigoryevich
BESSONOV Alexander Grigoryevich (1848, Vyatka – 1917), Linguist, Ethnographer. After graduating from the Theological Department of the Kazan Theological Academy (1877), he worked as a Reacher in Vyatka Gub., in Kazan and in Orenburg Guberniya. He was fluent in the Bashkir, Kazakh, Tatar and Udmurt languages....
BIISH
“BIISH”, is a Bashkir ethnic song, uzun-kuy. The instrumental variant (kuray) of “B.” was first recorded in 1894 by S.G. Rybakov in the Temyasovo village of Orskiy District (Baymakskiy District of RB). It is published in his book “Music and songs of the Ural Muslims and their household description”....
BIKBERDIN Yavdat Zaynullovich
BIKBERDIN Yavdat Zaynullovich (10.6.1952–12.5.1996), dancer, choreographer. The motives of Bashkir dance folklore are reflected in B.’s productions of “Caravan-Serai”, ”Route”, “Igzakov”, “Way Back Home”, “Kara-Yurga”, “Sonayym”, various versions of “Baik”, etc. Yu.I. Gainetdinov made the film “Yavdat...
BIKBULATOV Nail Valeyevich
BIKBULATOV Nail Valeyevich [14.2.1931, Etbayevo village, Argayashskiy district BASSR (Argayashskiy district, Chelyabinskaya region) – 18.4.1996, Ufa, buried in Novo Sobolyevo village, Argayashskiy district, Che lyabinskaya region], ethnographer. Candidate of History (1965). Graduated from Bashkir...
BIRD-CHERRY TREE WITH LARGE BUNCHES
“BIRD-CHERRY TREE WITH LARGE BUNCHES”, “B i r d - c h e r r y t r e e”, “W e e p i n g b i r d -c h e r r y t r e e”, Bashkir ethnic song, kyska-kuy. The legend and instrumental variants of the song were registered by S.G. Rybakov from M. Murzagulov in 1894 in Kubagushevo village, Verkhneuralskiy District,...
