YUMATOV, Vasily Stepanovich

YUMATOV, Vasily Stepanovich [? — 17.7.1848, Derevnya Yumatovo of Ufimsky Uyezd of Ufa Gub. (Ufimsky Raion of the RB)], a Local Historian. He served as the Judge of the Court of Ufimsky Uyezd, worked at Vedomosti of Orenburg Gubernia newspaper. His scientific activities were dedicated to archaeology, folklore, ethnography of Bashkirs, history of Orenburg Guberniya. In his work On the Name of Bashkirs, Yu. describes the legend about the ethnonym “bashkort” ( Vedomosti of Orenburg Gubernia newspaper; 1847, No.24); Ancient Legends of the Bashkirs of Chubiminskaya Volost is about the Min tribe and Bashkortostan’s accession to Russia (1848, No.7).