MUKHAMETZYANOV Rif Mirkhabullovich

MUKHAMETZYANOV Rif Mirkhabullovich (2.7.1939–7.2.1996), folklorist. Candidate of Philology (1973). His research is devoted to the calendar and wedding poetry of the Tatars of Bashkortostan, analysis of the relationship between literature and folklore. Author of more than 100 research papers. The founder of the Folklore Fund of the Tatar Philology Department of the Bashkir State University; the materials are published in “Tatar Folk Art”, as well as in the book “Folklore of the Tatars of Bashkortostan: fables, legends, little stories, and oral narrations”.

I.K. Fazlutdinov