RAKHIMKULOV Murat Galimovich

RAKHIMKULOV Murat Galimovich (30.4.1925–4.5.2015), literary critic. Candidate of Philology (1967). His research papers are devoted to the study of Russian-Bashkir literary and folklore connections as well as local literary lore. Author of more than 200 research papers. In the works “Pages of Friendship” (1972) and “Spring of Folk Wisdom” (1988), he explores the ideological and aesthetic functions of the Bashkir folklore in the works of Russian writers. The book “Those who sang Salavat: the image of the Batyr in Russian literature” (1994) includes essays about the writers who created significant works about Salavat Yulayev. The compiler and author of the scientific terminology of the anthology “Bashkiria in the Russian Literature”, etc. He translated into Russian several Bashkir fairy tales, included in the book “Bashkir Folk Art”.