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KHAZHIRA’S SONG
“”, “Khazhirakay”, Bashkir ethnic song, uzun-kuy. First registered by N.D. Shunkarov in 1965 from G. Yakupov in Tungatarov village, Uchaly District, BASSR. The song is lyro-epic. It was created in the 1st part of the 19th century. According to legend, it was composed by M.Y. Buzykaev’s daughter Khazhira,...
KYSKA‑KYUY
KYSKA‑KYUY (literally – a short tune), in the Bashk. music folklore refers to a melodic style; a genre of the Bashkir folk music. For the first time, the term was introduced by S.G. Rybakov, the first samples of K. k. were published in his The Music and Songs of Ural Muslims with an Essay of Their Everyday...
KYL‑KUBYZ
KYL‑KUBYZ, a Bashkir stringed bowed folk musical instrument. An oblong-shaped body made of a single piece of birch (hollowed) is connected to the neck, which has a curly head with stakes. In ancient times, the tool was made entirely from a single piece of wood. The length is about 650–800 mm; the...
KUTUZOV
“KUTUZOV”, Bashkir ethnic march song. The origin of the song is connected with military cooperation of the Bashkirs and Russians during the War of 1812. The song is named after Kutuzov, a warlord. The warlord in the song epitomizes the power of Russia, its invincibility; the great warlord and the warriors,...
KURAY
KURAY, a Bashkir wind instrument. It is made from the stem of the Ural ribbearing plant. It is a tube 570–810 mm long and about 20 mm in diameter with 5 holes (4 holes on the front, 1 on the back). The main scale is diatonic; the range is about 3 octaves. The sound occurs when one blows air into the...
KUNGYR‑BUGA
KUNGYR‑BUGA, a monumental epic work of Bashkir literature. Written in a combined poetic and prosaic form. First recorded by R.G. Ignatyev and published in 1865 in the Orenburgskiye Gubernskiye Vedomosti magazine. Various versions of the epic poem under the same name are recorded by M.A. Burangulov,...
KULSARINA Irena Galinurovna
KULSARINA Irena Galinurovna (b. 22.6. 1974), philologist. Candidate of Philology (2002). Her research is devoted to the study of Bashkir Russian folklore and literary relationships, principles and forms of the artistic representation of the image of Bashkortostan in the works of Russian writers of...
KULSARINA Gulnur Galinurovna
KULSARINA Gulnur Galinurovna (b. 19.10. 1977). Doctor of Philology (2018). Her research is devoted to the study of the language of Bashkir folklore, semantic reconstruction of the ethnic world view, the system of its values based on linguistic analysis of folklore texts. Author of more than 150 research...
KULUMBETOV Valiulla Faizullovich
KULUMBETOV Valiulla Faizullovich (1881–1964), poet-improviser. He collected the samples of Bashkir folklore, historical, and ethnographic materials. K. recorded the legend “The Song of Salavat to His Wife”, the kubair “With Pugachev’s army he merged...” by Salavat Yulayev etc, as well as poems by M....
KULUY‑CANTON
“KULUY‑CANTON”, “K o l i y - c a n t o n”, Bashkir ethnic song, uzun-kuy. First registered in the 1920s (the author is unknown), published in several variants in the magazine called “Soviet music” (1951, № 3). The song is lyrodramatic. Named after Mukhametkuluy Kuchukov, the head of a canton. The...
KUZYIKURPYAS AND MAYANKHYLU
“KUZYIKURPYAS AND MAYANKHYLU” (Kuzyikurpyas menen Mayankhylu), a monumental epic work of Bashkir literature. Written in a combined poetic and prosaic form. Recorded by S.Galimov from Ummugulsum Galimova, his mother, in Derevnya Taskino of Chelyab. Obl. in 1938. The plot is based on the love story between...
KUZEYEV Rail Gumerovich
KUZEYEV Rail Gumerovich [10.1.1929, Derevnya Aminevo of the Ufimsky Canton of the BASSR (Chishminsky Raion of the RB) – 2.8.2005, Ufa], Ethnologist, Historian. Associate Member of the RAS (1991), Academic of the AS RB (1991). Dr.Sci (History, 1971), Full Professor (1972). Between 1950–51 and between...
KUDYRONGYR
“KUDYRONGYR” (“Primrose”) is the Mari folklore ensemble of Arlanovskiy RHC, Krasnokamenskiy district, RB. It was organized in 2004, in 2012 it received the title “national”. I.I. Italyeva, honored artist of the Republic of Mari-El and RB, is the artdirector of the ensemble. Repertoir of “K.” includes...
KUBYZ
KUBYZ, a Bashkir selfsounding reed musical instrument. Made of metal or wood (rarely bone), about 8 cm long. Metal K. is a horseshoe with tapering ends. The middle holds a thin steel reed with a curved end; a wooden one holds a rectangular plate made of birch or maple with a reed cut in it. When playing...
KUBAIR
KUBAIR, 1) is a glorifying song (from Bashkir “koba” – excellent, glorified and “yir” – song); 2) is a clan’s or tribe’s song, is an equivalent of “heroic song” or “heroic epic” terms. K. poetry has 7th meter structure. The stanzas vary from 4 to 30 or more lines with pair or mixed rhyme. The...
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...
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...
