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KUBAGUSH‑SESEN
KUBAGUSH‑SESEN, Bashkir poet-improviser. The name K.S. is mentioned in the fables such as “Kubagush-Sesen”, “Karas and Karasakal”, the ulyane of a Kazakh akyn Bisyanbay. According to fable “Kubagush-Sesan”, K.S. lived in the late 15th to mid-16th centuries. He initiated the accession of Bashkortostan...
KUALA
KUALA are ancestral and family sanctuar ies of Udmurts, where people worshiped the clan’s protectors – voshshud spirits. They look like small wooden buildings with earth floor, without ceiling and windows and with a 2pitched roof. There is an open stone hearth with a cauldron hung above it or installed...
KRUGLYASHOVA Vera Petrovna
KRUGLYASHOVA Vera Petrovna (24.8. 1923–26.10.2001), folklorist, philologist. Doctor of Philology (1977), Professor (1978). Her research is devoted to the non-fairytale folk prose of the mining districts of the Urals and the problems of field folklore. Author of more than 50 research papers. The materials...
KRASNY YAR
“KRASNY YAR”, Russian historical and cultural center, public organization, branch of the House of Peoples’ Friendship. It was created in 1998 in the village Krasny Yar of Ufa district of the RB in order to preserve and revive the rites, folklore, and folk crafts of the Russian people. Russian culture...
KOROTAYEVA Larisa Valeryevna
KOROTAYEVA Larisa Valeryevna (b. 1.1. 1974), linguist. Candidate of Philology (2005). Her scientific works are devoted to the dialectology, lexicology of the Chuvash language, calendar ceremonies and holidays of the Chuvash people. Author of more than 165 research papers. Project Manager of the Russian...
KONDRATYEV Mikhail Grigoryevich
KONDRATYEV Mikhail Grigoryevich (b. 9.8.1948), musicologist, folklorist. Doctor of Art History (1995), Professor (1998). His research is devoted to the study of rhythm in Chuvash folk and professional music, the formation of the ethnic school of composers, and the art heritage of Chuvash ethnic music...
KOMISSAROV Guriy Ivanovich
KOMISSAROV Guriy Ivanovich (21.9.1883– 25.2.1969), educator, local historian, founder of the Chuvash folklore and literary studies, public figure. Candidate of Theology (1913). He studied the history and ethnography of the Chuvash people, collected historical, ethnographic, and folklore materials about...
KOLYADKA
KOLYADKA, k o l y a d a, k o l e d o v a, k o l a d n a y a s o n g is a calendarritual art form of the Slavic people. It is sung during Yuletide around the time of kolyadovaniye and the New Sun’s birth celebration, the symbol of which was Kolyada. K. aimed to call for a good harvest, offspring...
KOLPAKOVA Natalya Pavlovna
KOLPAKOVA Natalya Pavlovna [5(18).4.1902–8.6.1994], folklorist, writer, literary critic. Doctor of Philology (1963). Her research is devoted to the study of Russian song folklore.K. collected more than 40,000 folklore texts, including 19 wedding songs recorded in Bashkortostan, which became part of...
KOKHAV
“KOKHAV” (“Star”) a J e w i s h N G O i n B a s h k o r t o s t a n. Established in Ufa in 1994. The successor to “Shtern” Jewish Culture Society established in 1988. Jewish Sunday school has been operating at school No. 40 in Ufa since 1991. Hebrew courses were started in “Shtern” in 1993 and continue...
KODRU
“KODRU” M o l d a v i a n s e t h n i c c u l t u r a l c e n t e r i n B a s h k o r t o s t a n, an NGO established in Ufa in 2007. Participated in the 2nd (2009; organized an exhibition of Moldavian ethnic utensils, handicraft, musical instruments) and 3rd (2015) congresses of Bashkortostan...
KOBZAR, choir
“KOBZAR”, Ukrainian song choir. It was established in 1991 at Ordzhonikidze Palace of Culture; since 2000 it has been the city cultural and leisure center of Ufa. In 1996, he was awarded the title “People’s” of RB; in 2017, it earned the same in Ukraine. The repertoire includes Ukrainian folk songs:...
KOBZAR
“KOBZAR” U k r a i n i a n e t h n i c c u l t u r a l c e n t e r i n B a s h k o r t o s t a n, an NGO established in Ufa in 1990. Operates the Union of Ukrainian Women “Bereginya”, Ukrainian Youth Union “Plast”. Holds annual holidays Christmas, Kupala Night, festivals of Ukrainian culture...
KOBLAN-BATYR
“KOBLAN-BATYR”, a monument of Bashkir literature, epos. Was widespread among the Bashkirs, in the present day there is only one variant preserved: the copy of a record of the1920–1930s (lost) made by S. Suyundukova who lived in the Yultyevo village, Krasnogvardeyskiy District, Orenburg region. It was...
KNITTING A SHAWL
“KNITTING A SHAWL”, Bashkir ethnic song, kyska-kuy. It was first registered by S. Gabyashi and published in his “Bashkir ethnic songs” collection (Ufa, 1935). It is common round, dancing and playing takmak. It has a ternary measure structure of the chant. The takmak’s mode is a major pentatonic. The...
KIREY MERGEN
KIREY MERGEN [Kireyev Akhnyaf Nuriyevich (Nurmukhammetovich); 28.6.1912, Kigazytamakovo village, Birskiy district, Ufimskaya region (Mishkinskiy district, RB) – 24.1.1984, Ufa], a writer, folklorist, literary critic. Doctor of philology (1963), Professor (1966). Participant of the great Patriotic war....
KHYZYR
KHYZYR, K h a d i r (from Arabic “green”) is a character in Muslim mythology that combines the features of different characters belonged to pre-Islamic mythologies of Middle East and aulia (spiritual struggler, who was granted protection and magical power by Allah). According to legend he found a source...
KHUSAINOVA Gulnur Ravilovna
KHUSAINOVA Gulnur Ravilovna (b. 14.10.1959), folklorist. Doctor of Philology (2017). Her research is devoted to the study of genre specificity, poetics of Bashkir folk fairytales, the current state of Bashkir folklore, textology. Author of more than 300 research papers. One of the authors of the publications...
KHUSAINOV Gaysa Batyrgareyevich
KHUSAINOV Gaysa Batyrgareyevich [10.4. 1928, Derevnya Utyaganovo of Ufimsky Canton of the BASSR (now Karmaskalinsky Raion of the RB) — 27.7.2021, Ufa, buried in his homeland]. Acadimician of the AS RB (1991), Doctor Sci (Philology, 1971) and Full Professor (1972). Graduated from the Timiryazev Bashkir...
KHUSAINOV Abubakir Davletkulovich
KHUSAINOV Abubakir Davletkulovich (1.6.1859–8.8.1937), kuray player, educator, religious figure. Participant of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877–78. Kh. is a provider and collector of Bashkir folklore (recorded more than 300 ethnic songs), performed Bashkir folk songs (about 50 songs in the repertoire),...
