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“SEVEN GIRLS”, 1) Bashkir ethnic song, khalmak-kuy. First registered by L.N. Lebedinskiy from K. Akhmetzyanov in 1939 in Beloretskiy District. It is published in “Bashkort khalk yirdary”. The song is lyro­-dramatic. According to the version told by K. Islamov (from Isyanovo village, Baymakskiy district)...

“SHAFIK”, is a Bashkir ethnic song, uzun-kuy. Registered by G.Z. Suleymanov in 1938 in Temyasovo village, Baymakskiy District, BASSR from A. Karimov and published in “Bashkir ethnic art” (1st v., 1954). The lyrics and notes were registered by N.D. Shunkarov from Y.F. Akmurzin in 1965 in Blyavtamak village,...

“SHAGIBARAK”, is a Bashkir ethnic song, uzun-kuy. It was first written down by S.G. Rybakov in 1894 from Abdrakhman Davletov in Yuluk village of Orskiy District of Orenburgskaya region (current Baymakskiy District, RB) and published in “Music and songs of the Ural Muslims and their household description”...

SHAKUROV Rashit Zakirovich (b. 11.1. 1937), linguist, poet. Doctor of Philology (1998), Professor (2012). His research is devoted to the problems of Bashkir linguistics, literary studies, folklore, toponymy, dialectology. Author of more than 400 research papers. Sh. wrote out the versions of the epics...

SHAKUROVA Shaura Rashitovna (b. 10.12. 1967), folklorist, screenwriter, playwright. Candidate of Philology (1998). Her research is devoted to the problems of Bashkir epic studies, mythology, and textology. Author of more than 40 research papers. Sh.’s novel “Let the wind carry my words away...” is written...

SHAMANISM (from the Evenk language shaman, saman – exited, ecstatic person) is one of the earliest forms of religion based on the idea that a shaman (priest of the cult) communicates with the spirits during kamlaniye singing (mystical action). It is connected with animism, magic, totemism, fetishism;...

“SHARLY FOREST”, Bashkir ethnic song, uzun-kuy. First registered by G.K. Yenikeev in 1880s, it appears in his handwritten collection “Bashkir and Tatar songs” (known as “Digest № 1”; is preserved in the folklore cabinet of USIA). The song is dramatic. The origin of “S.F.” is connected with the event,...

SHAYTAN is an evil spirit in Bashkir mythology, relates to the jinn category. They can look like humans or other living creatures. According to certain beliefs, they live in yurts with their families, according to other beliefs – in caves in groups. They emit fire from their mouths while sleeping. They...

“SHEVLE” (Summer lightning), Chuvash folk ensemble of the Suukchishma rural culture house, Karmaskaly district of RB. It was founded in 1967 by O.M. Vasilyeva. In 2003 it was titled “People’s”. The ensemble consists of 2 groups: adult and children. Adult members of the ensemble perform in Chuvash old...

SHEZHERE is a genealogical history of a tribe, clan, family. There are nominal S. (generational enumeration of the names of relatives in the male line from the founder of the clan or from the compiler) and narrative S. (which include information about the historical events, people, documentary texts,...

SHITOVA Svetlana Nikolayevna (b.12.2. 1936, Stalingrad), an ethnographer. Candidate of Historical Sciences (1968). Distinguished Worker of Culture of the RB (2003). After graduating from Moscow State University (1958) until 2006, she worked at the Institute of History,  Language and Literature. Her...

SHOTA RUSTAVELI GEORGIAN ETHNIC CULTURAL CENTER, Bashkortostan, a NGO established in Ufa in 2010. A Georgian Sunday school has been working in Ufa since 2011. The center organizes Georgian cultural celebrations, Georgian movie shows, concerts with participation of Georgian performers. Par­ticipates...

SHUGAYUPOV Vakil Shakirovich (29.8.1936 in Selo Alkino, Salavatsky Raion of the BASSR – 28.6.2017 in Ufa, buried in his homeland) was a master of the national musical instruments production. Graduated from Kazan Art School in 1963. In 1976, Sh. was the first in the RB, who developed the technology of...

 “SHULDYR ZHYT” (“Merry evening”), Udmurt folklore ensemble of the inter-settlement cultural and leisure center of the village Novye Tatyshly in Tatyshly district of RB. Established in 1991. In 2000 it was titled “People’s”. The ensemble performs folklore compositions “Easter”, “Housewarming”, “Pomochi”,...

SHULGAN, is Bashkir mythological image. He is the elder son of Yanbirde and Yanbike in the “Ural-batyr” epic (see First ancestor), the brother antagonist of Ural-batyr. These people used to be immortal as were the Gods of upper world Samrau, Koyash (the Sun), Ay (the Moon), Khumay. There was a sacred...

SHUMBAY is a folklore character from Bashkir fairytales. It is a collective image of a cunning liar. The same-titled fairytale tells about S. He is a joker trying to appear like a crank: bay’s wife forbids her husband to employ the person named S., but S. makes the bay to break the prohibition by convincing...

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...

SHURALE is a demon in Bashkir mythology. It appears in bylichkas. It looks like a human-like creature with horns and long fingers with sharp (copper) nails or as a woman with ginger hair, hanging breasts and backward feet, or sometimes as a log or tree. It lives in forests, mountains, on the riverbanks....

“SIBAY” (Sibay Canton), the Bashkir ethnic song, uzun kyuy. First recorded by S.G. Rybakov in 1894, published in his The Music and Songs of Ural Muslims with an Essay of Their Everyday Life book. Lyric and drama song. Presumably, composed by Sh.U. Sibayev, Canton Head. Lyrics have the form of a mo­...

SIDOROVA Efrosiniya Sergeevna (16.2. 1930–30.7.2018), folklorist. Candidate of Philology (1973). Her research is devoted to the study of Chuvash folklore. Author of approx. 100 research papers. One of the compilers of the collection “Chuvash folk art”. L.A. Afanasyeva...