VILDANOV Gabdelakhat Fazlyevich

VILDANOV Gabdelakhat Fazlyevich (6.2. 1879–9.2.1954), linguist, ethnographer, folk­lorist. His research was focused on the study of folklore and ethnography of the Bashkirs as well as theoretical and applied Bashkir linguistics. Compiled the collection “Bashkir Riddles” (1927); one of the authors of the book “Words of the Ancients. Proverbs and Sayings in the Bashkir Language” (1924). V. published a fragment of the epic “Idukay and Muradym” (1927), and the first recorded kubair poem “Sergeant Masagut” (1920s).