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ERVEL MARIY
“ERVEL MARIY” (“Eastern Mari”) M a r i e t h n i c c u l t u r a l a u t o n o m y i n B a s h k o r t o s t a n, a NGO established in Ufa in 1989. Has branches and departments in local Mari communities. Annually holds the Inter-Regional Eastern Mari ethnic dance contest “Silver Cord”,...

EPIC
EPIC B a s h k i r, folklore is a heroic narrative about the past. It tells about the whole picture of ethnic life and harmonious unity of the world and heroes. The main sources for the E. formation are myths, stories about the first ancestors (see also Cultural hero). Epics were classified by Kirey...

EICHENWALD Anton Aleksandrovich
EICHENWALD Anton Aleksandrovich (13.5. 1875–1952), composer, conductor, folklorist, music and public figure. For more than 20 years, he collected Bashkir ethnic songs and tunes, as well as studied Bashkir ethnic music. More than 4,000 samples of song folklore of the peoples of the Volga region and Central...

EASTER
EASTER (Christ’s day, Resurrection of Christ, the Great day, Bright Christ’s Sunday) is the main Christian holiday dedicated to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is held the first Sunday after the spring new moon. People clean their houses, bake kulich cakes, cook cottage paskha dish, paint eggs...

ETHNIC CULTURAL CENTER OF KRYASHENS
ETHNIC CULTURAL CENTER OF KRYASHENS i n B a s h k o r t o s t a n, a NGO established in Bakaly, Bakalinskiy District, Bashkortostan in 1998. A part of the Union of Kryashens Ethnic Cultural Centers of Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, Udmurtia. Rural ethnic cultural centers are present in settlements with Kryashen...

ETHNIC CULTURAL CENTERS, NGOs
ETHNIC CULTURAL CENTERS, NGOs. Established in Bashkortostan in accordance with Russian laws “Concerning Non-Governmental Organizations” (1995), “Concerning Non-Profit Organizations” (1995), etc. There are more than 40 NGOs (2019): Azeri Ethnic Cultural Center, “Ak Bata”, “Ala-Too”, “Wiedergeburt”, “Revival”,...

ETHNIC DANCE
ETHNIC DANCE is a folklore dance performed in its natural environment. It has certain traditional moves, beat, costumes, etc.
The Bashkir E.d. reflect some peculiarities of labor activities, different customs and beliefs, imaginative perception of nature, the habits of animals and birds. The dances...

ETHNIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
ETHNIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Modern field research notes that traditional musical instruments of people of Bashkortostan has preserved their peculiarities and keep developing: Detailed descriptions of the harmonica appeared in 1985 in different constructive and national variants, then the dumbyra was...

ETHNIC MUSIC
ETHNIC MUSIC i s m u s i c a l f o l k l o r e, vocal and instrumental art of people. Traditionally it exists in oral and written forms, it is transferred from one generation to another. The main feature of E.m. is that its traditions are preserved. They include anonymity, syncretic connection with...

ETHNIC GROUPS
ETHNIC GROUPS of Bashkirs, territorially isolated parts of ethnos, having peculiarities in the traditional culture, language and preserving ethnic identity. In the territory of the Volgo‑Ural historical‑ethnographic region, there are E.g. of Trans-Ural, Irgiz‑Kamelik, Kama‑Ik, Orenburg and Perm Bashkirs....

ETHNIC GAMES
ETHNIC GAMES are historically estab‑ lished activities (amusements, shows, larks, sport, dancing, singing and other contests) of entertaining nature, which reflect traditional worldview, beliefs, customs, folklore develop‑ ment, social relations and household of people.
E.g. aim to foster and...

EARTH–WATER
EARTH–WATER is a dual mythologized deity in female image, protector of nature pow ers; an image of the Motherland. It combines male and female principles, includes the unity of time and space, a person and nature. Thus, a healing Bashkir spell describes the ancient origin of the motherearth with a...

ENIKEYEV Gaysa Khamidullovich
ENIKEYEV Gaysa Khamidullovich (2.7.1864–March 1931), Deputy of the 3rd (1907– 12) and 4th (1912–17) State Duma. In 1883–93, he collected works of musical folklore of Bash kirs and Tatars, recorded about 500 songs. The compiler of the manuscript “Ancient Bashkir and Tatar song” (known as “Collection...

EVDOKIMOVA Elena Viktorovna
EVDOKIMOVA Elena Viktorovna (b. 30.8. 1960), public figure. Organizer and artistic di rector of the Russian folk ensemble “Tausen”. Candidate of Philology (1995). Research is de voted to the problems of folk linguistics, cul tural linguistics, linguistic aspects of S.T. Aksa kov’s work. Author of...

ETHNIC DRAMA
ETHNIC DRAMA is a folklore theatrical performance which does not have a fixed text as its basis and exists in stage form. Its origin re lates to the dramatic elements of ritual folklore, ethnic games, minstrel’s, joker’s, buffoon’s, se sen’s art, etc. It has prose and poetic forms. E.d. can be characterized...

ETHNOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS
ETHNOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS of Bashkirs, include the objects of ethnos’ material culture and its local variants of ethnographic groups. The E.c. of Bashkirs were established during the Academic Expeditions of 1768 — 74, ethnographic expeditions, by scientists of the 18th — 21st centuries. At the Russian...

ETHNOGRAPHIC GROUPS
ETHNOGRAPHIC GROUPS, parts of ethnos, compactly living in a certain territory, preserving the peculiarities in the language and individual components of culture. Bashkirs are subdivided into South‑East., North‑East., North‑West., South‑West. E.g.; their ethnic basis was made up of the Mongolian and...

ETHNOGENESIS OF BASHKIRS
ETHNOGENESIS OF BASHKIRS, the process of the emergence and development of ethnic affinity; the initial phase of ethnic history of the ethnos. In ethnology, based on the materials on archaeography, archaeology, anthropology, comparative historical linguistics, etc, the Finno‑Ugric and Turkic theories...

ETHYLENE
ETHYLENE, a colorless gas with a slight scent. The production of ethylene was mastered in Bashkortostan in 1957 at the Ufa Plant of Synthetic Alcohols through the pyrolysis of petroleum gas (since 1968 through the pyrolysis of gasoline). Used in the synthetic ethanol manufacturing by method of its hydration,...

EPIC
EPIC, a genre of the Bashk. folklore and folk literature. A narrative which could exists in different forms: poetic, prosaic, and mixed (poetic and prosaic). One of the oldest genres of folk poetry. E. reflects the people’s ideas about nature and life, their beliefs and customs. The Bashk. epic is distinguished...