MILITARY HISTORY OF THE BASHKIRS: ENCYCLOPEDIA

“MILITARY HISTORY OF THE BASHKIRS: ENCYCLOPEDIA”, popular science publication (Ufa, 2013). Editor­-in­-chief A.Z. As­fandiyarov. The chronological framework of the publication covers the period from ancient times to the present. It consists of 2 parts: a monographic essay describing the main milestones in the military history of the Bashkirs and the alphabetical part consisting of about 880 articles. The documentary basis of most of the articles is made up of archival sources, including materials from the Scientific archive of URC RAS. The encyclopedia describes the works of Bashkir oral folk art devoted to the military history of Bash­kirs: ethnic songs and tunes, epics, tales, lores, etc. The publication has a bibliographic and nominal index (more than 2000 names), etc.