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VESKELI
VESKELI is an Udmurt wedding ritual chant (see Family and household ritual poetry). Before the bride leaves her parent’s house, a chest with her dowry is taken to the middle of the house. At this moment women begin sing ing farewell V. song. The bride goes 3 times around the table in the...

VUKOLOV-ERLIK (Vukolov) Filip Nikolayevich
VUKOLOV-ERLIK (Vukolov) Filip Nikolayevich (18.11.1904–28.7.1979), writer, folklorist. V.–E. collected more than 400 Chuvash folk songs, proverbs and sayings, recorded the beyet “Kazan Besieged”, included in the scien tific code “Chuvash Folk Art”. In 1949–48, 1960–63, he went to...

VILDANOV Gabdelakhat Fazlyevich
VILDANOV Gabdelakhat Fazlyevich (6.2. 1879–9.2.1954), linguist, ethnographer, folklorist. His research was focused on the study of folklore and ethnography of the Bashkirs as well as theoretical and applied Bashkir linguistics. Compiled the collection “Bashkir Riddles” (1927); one of the authors...

VIKAR László
VIKAR László (8.6.1929–12.5.2017), ethnomusicologist, folklorist. Professor (1980). His research is devoted to the study of the traditional musical culture of the Finno-Ugric and Turkic peoples of the Volga region. Together with G. Bereczki in the 1960–70s, he collected materials on folk...

VAKHITOV Yangali Arslanovich
VAKHITOV Yangali Arslanovich (5.10. 1932–3.10.2003), dancer. V.’s characteristic and ceremonial folk dances were known for romanticism, conciseness, and special internal expression. Emotionality and clarity of the rhythms made the V.’s performance of dance “Baik” stand out. Author of more...

VASTOMA
“VASTOMA” (“Meeting”), Mordovian folk lore and ethnographic ensemble at Sadovka ru ral culture house of Sterlitamak district of RB. Established in 1993. In 2003, it earned the title “People’s”. The founder and artistic director is N.E. Artamonov. The repertoire lists more than 60 songs,...

VASILYEV Valerian Mikhailovich
VASILYEV Valerian Mikhailovich (1.1.1883– 2.5.1961), philologist, folklorist. Doctor of Philology (1957). The founder of Mari linguistics, folklore; one of the first Mari writers. Author of more than 250 research papers. Compiled the collections “Mari folk songs, riddles, and fairy tales” (1908),...

VALEYEV Zinnat Valeyevich
VALEYEV Zinnat Valeyevich [1.5.1902 (acc. to other data, 1903)–16.5.1997], storyteller. Participant of the Great Patriotic War. He spoke Turkic, Arabic, and Persian languages and was skillful with words. In the 1970s, from the narrations of V., A.M. Suleymanov recorded about 10 works, including the...

VALEYEV Damir Zhavatovich
VALEYEV Damir Zhavatovich (2.1.1940– 28.5.2002), philosopher, public figure. Corre sponding member of the AS RB (1991), Doctor of Philosophy (1984), Professor (1987). His re search is devoted to ethics, federalism and sovereignty, and to the history of public thinking in Bashkortostan. Collector...

V.I.LENIN STERLITAMAK REPUBLICAN BOARDING LYCEUM NO.2
V.I.LENIN STERLITAMAK REPUBLICAN BOARDING LYCEUM NO.2. Educational and fostering institution, which was founded in Ufa in 1919. Since 1924, it has been named in honour of V.I.Lenin. Since 1930, it has been transferred to Sterlitamak; since 1938 — an orphanage, since 1969 — boarding school No.2,...

VICTORY PARK
VICTORY PARK. Created in Ufa (7 Komarova st., area: 232 ha) as a recreation park Neftyanik (Oil worker). It received its present name on May 9, 1980, the day of the opening of the memorial in honour of M.H.Gubaydullin and A.M.Matrosov (by sculptors L.E.Kerbel and N.S.Lyubimov, and architect G.G.Lebedev)....

VEGETABLE GROWING
VEGETABLE GROWING, a branch of plant growing concerned with cultivation of vegetable crops. There are V.g. of open and protected soils. Vegetables in field conditions are grown in the open soil, while vegetables in the off‑season period and open soil seedlings are grown in the protected soil.
The...

VOSKHOD
VOSKHOD (Sunrise), Recreation Center, LLC. Located in the Ufimsky Raion, on the bank of the Dema River, 20 km SW of Ufa. Opened in 1981 as an allRussia resort and was a part of ZAO Bashtur. Has its present status since 2002. It has a threestorey building with three/four bed rooms with all amenities,...

VOROBYOV, Vladimir Ivanovich
VOROBYOV, Vladimir Ivanovich (b.28.9. 1946 in Ust-Katav), Coach. Merited Coach of the USSR (1991) and RSFSR (1985), Master of Sports (ice hockey) (1974), Merited Physical Culture Professional of the RB (1998). Between 1976–92 and 2015–16 Chief Coach of the Salavat Yulayev Specialist Children and...

VOROBYOV, Viktor Vasilyevich
VOROBYOV, Viktor Vasilyevich (25.6. 1939, Pavlovsky Posad — 9.10.1991, Ufa), Mining Geological Engineer. Merited Geologist of the RSFSR (1990). Laureate of the USSR State Award (1980). Awarded with the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1971). After graduating from the North Caucasian Institute...

VOLOST
VOLOST, an administrative and territory unit in Russia between 11th — early 20th centuries. This term refers to a form of the rural population’s selforganization.
On the territory of the historical territory of Bashkortostan V. began to form after the accession of Bashkortostan to Russia. V....

VOCAL MUSIC
VOCAL MUSIC, the music intended for singing. In the Bashkir folk music, the genres of V.m. are represented by bait, kyska-kyuy, kubair, munazhat, senlyau, takmak, uzun-kyuy, khalmak-kyuy, etc. In the creative work of the composers of Bashkortostan, the genres of V.m. are mainly represented by...

VOIVOD’S GOVERNMENT
VOIVOD’S GOVERNMENT, the Russia’s system of local government in uyezds (city or uyezd local government; mid. 16th century – 1708) and provinces (provincial local government; 1719–75). In Bashkortostan, V.g. was introduced with the foundation of Ufa and the formation of Ufa Uyezd. It reported...

VITYAZ
VITYAZ, Machine-Building Company, OAO (Ishimbay). It is the only manufacturer of two-section transporters in the RF. It also produces driving axles for buses and trolleybuses. It was put into operation in 1979 as the Ishimbay branch of the Rubtsovsk Machine-Building Plant, since 1983 it became...

VITAMINONOUS PLANTS
VITAMINONOUS PLANTS, the plants, which are used as a source of vitamins for humans and animals, as well as other raw materials for the production of vitamin products. A number of plants with high vitamin content are included in The Red List of the RB, such as relict twistedleaf onion, ramson, flatfruited...