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BELORETSKIY (Larionov) Grigoriy Pro­kopyevich (19.1.1879–6.3.1913), writer, folk­lorist, doctor. Collected and studied the oral poetry of factory workers. Wrote the essays “Guslyar Storyteller in the Ural Region” and “Factory Poetry” (both dated 1902), which included 500 chastushkas collected in the...

BELYAYEV Timofey Savelyevich (1768– 1864; according to other sources, 1846). He was a serf and private secretary of landowner N.I. Timashev. B. knew the Bashkir language and folklore well. He penned in Russian the Bashkir epic “Kuzyy-kurpyas and Mayan-khylu”, published in 1812 under the title “Kuz­...

BENEVOLENCE is a set laconic verbal formula­expression of ceremonial folklore. It exists in the folklore of many peoples. Its origin is connected with ancient beliefs in the magic of words. It is uttered in crucial moments of a person’s life (birth, wedding, funeral, start of end of important business)...

BERECZKI Gábor (24.3.1928–4.4.2012), Hungarian linguist, folklorist. Doctor of Philology (1987). His research relates to the study of the language and folklore of the Finno­Ugric and Turkic peoples of the Volga region. In 1950–60, together with L. Vikár, he collected materials on language, folklore,...

“BERKAZAN”, children’s ensemble of kuray performers of Davlekanovo district house of culture. Established in 1988 at Mikyashevo branch of Davlekanovo Children’s School of Arts. In 2003, it earned the title “exemplary”; in 2015, it became an honored folk­art team of RB. The founder and artistic director...

BESSONOV Alexander Grigoryevich (1848, Vyatka – 1917), Linguist, Ethnographer. After graduating from the Theological Department of the Kazan Theological Academy (1877), he worked as a Reacher in Vyatka Gub., in Kazan and in Orenburg Guberniya. He was fluent in the Bashkir, Kazakh, Tatar and Udmurt languages....

“BIISH”, is a Bashkir ethnic song, uzun-kuy. The instrumental variant (kuray) of “B.” was first recorded in 1894 by S.G. Rybakov in the Temyasovo village of Orskiy District (Baymakskiy District of RB). It is published in his book “Music and songs of the Ural Muslims and their household description”....

BIKBERDIN Yavdat Zaynullovich (10.6.1952–12.5.1996), dancer, choreographer. The motives of Bashkir dance folklore are reflected in B.’s productions of “Caravan­-Serai”, ”Route”, “Igzakov”, “Way Back Home”, “Kara-Yurga”, “Sonayym”, various versions of “Baik”, etc. Yu.I. Gainetdinov made the film “Yavdat...

BIKBULATOV Nail Valeyevich [14.2.1931, Etbayevo village, Argayashskiy district BASSR (Argayashskiy district, Chelyabinskaya region) – 18.4.1996, Ufa, buried in Novo­ Sobolyevo village, Argayashskiy district, Che­ lyabinskaya region], ethnographer. Candidate of History (1965). Graduated from Bashkir...

“BIRD-CHERRY TREE WITH LARGE BUNCHES”, “B i r d - c h e r r y  t r e e”, “W e e p i n g b i r d -c h e r r y t r e e”, Bashkir ethnic song, kyska-kuy. The legend and instrumental variants of the song were registered by S.G. Rybakov from M. Murzagulov in 1894 in Kubagushevo village, Verkhneuralskiy District,...

BISURA (from ancient Turkic “bichin” – an ape) is a kikimora or a lower spirit. It is named B., bichura in Turkic, and kikimora in Slavic mythology. It appears in bylichkas, fairytales. The creature is insidious and cunning. It lives in thick woods and houses where people often quarrel. It can turn...

“BLACK AMBLE” (“Kara yurga”), “Black amble”, Bashkir ethnic song, kyska-kuy. The first information about the song is presented in I.I. Lepyekhin’s notes. The legend and instrumental variants of “B.a.” were first registered by S.G. Rybakov in 1894 from quaray players: Birgali, who lived in Temyasovo...

 BLESSING is a folklore genre connected with magic from a good word to correct a person’s or people’s life in a positive way. It is mostly uttered by elderly people. B. are dedicated to the crucial events in life (birth of a child, giving­ a­name moment, wedding, newly married couple visiting elders...

“BROWN BULL” is a Bashkir ethnic song, khalmak-kuy. First registered in 1907 by M.A. Burangulov in Venkhneilyasoso vil­ lage, Buzulukskiy district, Samarskaya region (Krasnogvagdeyskiy district, Orenburgskaya region) from Khasan Burangulov, published in “Bashkir ethnic songs” (1935) by S. Gabyashi....

BRYANTSEVA Lyudmila Ivanovna (26.6. 1946–9.6.2012), folklorist. Candidate of Phi­ lology (1984). His research is connected with the study of Russian song folklore. Author of more than 50 research papers. Author and compiler of the collection of song texts and notes of the “Russian song tradition of...

“BURANBAY” is a Bashkir ethnic song, uzun-kuy. First registered by S.G. Rybakov in 1894 from Tulgunzha Gubaydullin in the Itkulovo village of Orskiy District of Oren­ burgskaya region (current 2­d Itkulovo village of Baymakskiy District of RB). It is published in “Music and songs of the Ural Muslims...

BURANBAY‑SESEN [Kutuchev/Kutdusov Baranbay Suyundukovich (acc. to other sources, Suyundukov Buranbay Kutdusovich); 1765 (acc. to other sources, 1771 or 1781), Kinzyebulatovo village, Burzyanskaya parish, Nogai road, current Buranbayevo village, Baymakskiy district, RB – around 1868, buried, presumably,...

BURANGULOV Mukhametsha Abdrakhmanovich (15.12.1888, Derevnya Ilyaskino of Buzuluksky Uyezd of Samara Gub., now De­ revnya Verkhneilyasovo of Krasnogvardeysky Raion of Orenb. Obl. – 9.3.1966, Ufa). People’s Sesen of the BASSR (1944). Graduated from the one of the Kargalinsky madrassas (1907) and the...

BYLICHKA is a folklore genre, a short story about a person meeting a supernatural creature. The narration is told on behalf of the main character by his friend, and the plausibility of the story is the organizing aesthetic basis of the genre. The main purpose of the narrator is to express a tense psychological...