KOLPAKOVA Natalya Pavlovna

KOLPAKOVA Natalya Pavlovna [5(18).4.1902–8.6.1994], folklorist, writer, literary critic. Doctor of Philology (1963). Her research is devoted to the study of Russian song folklore.
K. collected more than 40,000 folklore texts, including 19 wedding songs recorded in Bashkortostan, which became part of the book “Russian Wedding Lyrics” (1973). Head of the first folklore and ethnographic expedition of the Bashkir RI (1938). Its materials are stored in the scientific archive of the Ufa Federal Research Center of RAS and the Manuscript Department of the  Institute  of  Russian  Literature  (Pushkin House) of RAS.

F.G. Galieva