KUZEYEV Rail Gumerovich

KUZEYEV Rail Gumerovich [10.1.1929, Derevnya Aminevo of the Ufimsky Canton of the BASSR (Chishminsky Raion of the RB) – 2.8.2005, Ufa], Ethnologist, Historian. Associate Member of the RAS (1991), Academic of the AS RB (1991). Dr.Sci (History, 1971), Full Professor (1972). Between 1950–51 and between 1954–83, he worked at the Institute of History, Language and Literature. Between 1983–99 – Head of the Department of the Peoples of the Urals at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Ufa Scientific Centre of the RAS; simultaneously between 1995–96 – acting Vice­President of the AS RB, 1999– 2001 – Director of the Centre of Ethnological Research. His scientific studies were devoted to the theory of ethnos, to the formation of ethnic composition of the peoples of the Volga Region and of the South Urals, to the problems of ethnogenesis of Bashkirs (ref. The Origin of the Bashkir people), etc. Organizer, Leader and Participant of a number of archaeographic and ethnographic expeditions.