FARSHATOV Valentin (Gallyamutdin) Dmitrievich

FARSHATOV Valentin (Gallyamutdin) Dmitrievich (2.12.1910–27.7.1987), folklorist, ethnographer. Participant of the Great Patriotic War. He made a substantial contribution to the collection and publication of folklore of the Trans-Kama Udmurts. In Kaltasinsky and Tatyshlinsky districts of BASSR, Kuyedinsky district of Perm oblast (region), F. recorded 1100 chastushkas, 670 proverbs and idioms, 60 fairy tales, 215 works of children’s folklore, etc., which are stored in the scientific archive of the Udmurt Institute of History, Language, and Literature of the UB RAS (Izhevsk).

A.T. Baidullina