YUSUPOV, Rinat Mukhametovich

YUSUPOV, Rinat Mukhametovich (13.11.1951, Selo Isyangulovo of Zyanchurinsky Raion of the BASSR — 15.1.2011, Ufa), an Anthropologist, Ethnographer. Candidate of Historical Sciences (1982). Distinguished Worker of Culture of the RB (2003). Between 1975–77 and since 1980, he worked at the Institute of History, Language and Literature. His scientific studies are dedicated to the paleoanthropology of the population of the South Urals, history, anthropology and ethnology of Bashkirs. Organizer, leader and participant of more than 20 anthropological expeditions and a number of ethnographic expeditions in the territory Bashkortostan and other regions. The collected anthropological material formed the basis of the craniological collection (1.5 thous. units) from the Bronze Age to the present days; it is stored at the Institute of History, Language and Literature, at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, etc.