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BISURA
BISURA (from ancient Turkic “bichin” – an ape) is a kikimora or a lower spirit. It is named B., bichura in Turkic, and kikimora in Slavic mythology. It appears in bylichkas, fairytales. The creature is insidious and cunning. It lives in thick woods and houses where people often quarrel. It can turn...
BLACK AMBLE
“BLACK AMBLE” (“Kara yurga”), “Black amble”, Bashkir ethnic song, kyska-kuy. The first information about the song is presented in I.I. Lepyekhin’s notes. The legend and instrumental variants of “B.a.” were first registered by S.G. Rybakov in 1894 from quaray players: Birgali, who lived in Temyasovo...
BLESSING
BLESSING is a folklore genre connected with magic from a good word to correct a person’s or people’s life in a positive way. It is mostly uttered by elderly people. B. are dedicated to the crucial events in life (birth of a child, giving aname moment, wedding, newly married couple visiting elders...
BROWN BULL
“BROWN BULL” is a Bashkir ethnic song, khalmak-kuy. First registered in 1907 by M.A. Burangulov in Venkhneilyasoso vil lage, Buzulukskiy district, Samarskaya region (Krasnogvagdeyskiy district, Orenburgskaya region) from Khasan Burangulov, published in “Bashkir ethnic songs” (1935) by S. Gabyashi....
BRYANTSEVA Lyudmila Ivanovna
BRYANTSEVA Lyudmila Ivanovna (26.6. 1946–9.6.2012), folklorist. Candidate of Phi lology (1984). His research is connected with the study of Russian song folklore. Author of more than 50 research papers. Author and compiler of the collection of song texts and notes of the “Russian song tradition of...
BURANBAY
“BURANBAY” is a Bashkir ethnic song, uzun-kuy. First registered by S.G. Rybakov in 1894 from Tulgunzha Gubaydullin in the Itkulovo village of Orskiy District of Oren burgskaya region (current 2d Itkulovo village of Baymakskiy District of RB). It is published in “Music and songs of the Ural Muslims...
BURANBAY‑SESEN
BURANBAY‑SESEN [Kutuchev/Kutdusov Baranbay Suyundukovich (acc. to other sources, Suyundukov Buranbay Kutdusovich); 1765 (acc. to other sources, 1771 or 1781), Kinzyebulatovo village, Burzyanskaya parish, Nogai road, current Buranbayevo village, Baymakskiy district, RB – around 1868, buried, presumably,...
BURANGULOV Mukhametsha Abdrakhmanovich
BURANGULOV Mukhametsha Abdrakhmanovich (15.12.1888, Derevnya Ilyaskino of Buzuluksky Uyezd of Samara Gub., now De revnya Verkhneilyasovo of Krasnogvardeysky Raion of Orenb. Obl. – 9.3.1966, Ufa). People’s Sesen of the BASSR (1944). Graduated from the one of the Kargalinsky madrassas (1907) and the...
BYLICHKA
BYLICHKA is a folklore genre, a short story about a person meeting a supernatural creature. The narration is told on behalf of the main character by his friend, and the plausibility of the story is the organizing aesthetic basis of the genre. The main purpose of the narrator is to express a tense psychological...
CADRILLE
CADRILLE is an ethnic and ballroom pair dance. There are Moscow C., Volga, Ural C., etc. There are ethnic dances that are the variations of C.: the dances of four, six, seven, eight, kadrel, lantse, etc. It was popular in 19th – early 20th centuries during the games and beanfeasts in Belarusian, Russian,...
CALENDAR POETRY
CALENDAR POETRY is folklore works which are a part of naturalseasonal rituals (see Rituals). Peoples have universal ideological and functional bases of C.p.: deification and personification of living nature, belief in magical power of words (see Magic), personification of the highest celestials (Tengri,...
CAVALRY HORSE WITH A STAR ON HIS FOREHEAD
“CAVALRY HORSE WITH A STAR ON HIS FOREHEAD”, “A h o r s e w i t h a w h i t e s t r i p e o n h i s f o r e h e a d”, Bashkir ethnic song, uzun-kuy. First registered by A.S. Klyucharyev in 1933 from A. Karimov, a worker of the Beloretsk Metallurgical Plant, published in the book “Bashkort...
CENTER OF FOLK ART
CENTER OF FOLK ART r e g i o n a l. Located in Ufa. Established in 1937 in order to preserve, develop, and promote the cultural heritage of the Bashkirs, Belarusians, Mordovians, Mari, Russian, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Chuvash, and other ethnicities living on the territory of RB; organize the cultural pastime...
CENTER OF TAJIK ETHNIC CULTURE N. A. I. SOMONI
CENTER OF TAJIK ETHNIC CULTURE N. A. I. SOMONI i n B a s h k o r t o s t a n, an NGO established in Ufa in 2000. The center participated in the 2nd (2009) and 3rd (2015) Congresses of the Bashkortostan Peoples’ Assembly, Inter-Regional Academic Workshop “Ethnic Politics and Traditional Culture” (2009),...
CHASTUSHKA
CHASTUSHKA is a dancing song; a genre of musical-poetic folklore. Bashkir and other C. were first recorded on phonograph on the territory of Bashkortostan in the late 19th c. By S.G. Rybakov. In 1929-31 they were registered by I.V. Saltykov and G. Bereczki, L. Vikar, A.F. Yurtov, V.G. Rodionov, F.K....
CHRISTMAS
CHRISTMAS is one of the main Christian holidays dedicated to Jesus Christ’s birth. Its origin is connected with pagan beliefs about ethnic calendar rituals dedicated to the birth of the new Sun, winter solstice period (see Nardugan). It is celebrated on January 7th (December 25th, the old tradition)...
CHUVASH CULTURE SOCIETY
CHUVASH CULTURE SOCIETY i n B a s h k o r t o s t a n, an NGO established in Ufa in 1989. In cooperation with “Kanash” and Chuvash Historical Cultural Center, participated in regional celebrations, contests and festivals, and in the Chuvash cultural festival “Uyav”, youth festival of song and dance...
CHUVASH FOLK ART
“CHUVASH FOLK ART” (“Chavash khalak pultarulakhe”), a systematic scientific publication. Carried out by a team of folklorists of the Research Institute of Language, Literature, History, and Economics under the Council of Ministers of the Chuvash ASSR (currently, Chuvash State Institute of Humanities,...
CHUVASH FOLK SONG
CHUVASH FOLK SONG art from Bashkortostan is represented by labor, wedding, commemoration, recruiter, guest, historic, love, round dance, game, joke songs, ballads, etc. Chastushki play an integral part of folklore. The songs are usually sung in one voice. Duet, two-voiced and choirs are developing mostly...
CHUVASH FOLKLORE
CHUVASH FOLKLORE in the Republic of Bashkortostan is represented by diverse genres (excluding epic). A great part of the collected materials is fairytales (about magic, heroes, everyday life, animals). Legends, historical lore, riddles, proverbs and idioms are widely presented. Folklore song set is...
