SHUNKAROV Nigmat Dinakhmetovich

SHUNKAROV Nigmat Dinakhmetovich (1.1. 1931–4.3.1994), folklorist. Author of more than 50 publications devoted to Bashkir folk music, sesen storytellers, ritual folklore, etc. Sh. penned the versions of the epic “Alpamysha and Barsynhylu”, “Babsak and Kusyak”, “Zayatulyak and Khyukhylu”, “Kuzykurpyas and Mayankhylu”, songs “Arguzha”, “Gaysa-akhun”, “Kuluy-Canton”, “Madinakay”, “Colonel Butisov”, etc. The materials collected by Sh are stored in the Scientific archive of URC RAS where there are tape recordings of 1,500 samples of musical-poetic art of the Bashkirs, of which 300 are phonorecords made by Sh. One of the compilers of the collections “Bashkort Khalyk Izhady”, “Bashkir Folk Art”, “400 Bashkir folk songs”.