VALEYEV Zinnat Valeyevich

VALEYEV Zinnat Valeyevich [1.5.1902 (acc. to other data, 1903)–16.5.1997], storyteller. Participant of the Great Patriotic War. He spoke Turkic, Arabic, and Persian languages and was skillful with words. In the 1970s, from the narrations of V., A.M. Suleymanov recorded about 10 works, including the ones about Yerense-Sesen, some of which were included in the collections “Bashkort khalyk izhady” and “Bashkir folk art”.