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MORDOVIAN ETHNIC CULTURAL CENTER
MORDOVIAN ETHNIC CULTURAL CENTER, an NGO established in Ufa in 1996. Mordovian is studied in some schools of the region. Teachers of Mordovian are trained in colleges of education in Salavat and Sterlitamak. The center participates in organizing annual Days of the Mordovian Language and Culture, “Erzyan...
MORDOVIAN HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CENTER
MORDOVIAN HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CENTER, public organization, branch of the House of Peoples’ Friendship. Established in 2011, in the village Fedorovka of Fedorovsky district of the RB in order to revive and safeguard the cultural and historical heritage, language, crafts, customs, and folklore of...
MORDOVIAN ETHNIC SONG
MORDOVIAN ETHNIC SONG folklore of Bashkortostan people was influenced by Christianization and long-term integration with Bashkirs, Russians, Chuvashes. At the same time, it has elements of pagan beliefs. Calendar-ceremonial songs are the most constant. They are about: the universe and customs origins...
MON
“MON” (”Melody”), Tatar talyanka ensemble of Starobaltachevo village in Baltachevo district of RB. Organized in 1993 by the honored worker of culture of RB N.Kh. Gallyamov. In 2003 it was titled “Exemplary.” The repertoire includes folk songs and rural tunes: “Apipa,” “Arsk,” “Friday,” “Fazyl’s spring,”...
YOUTH GAMES
YOUTH GAMES are mass entertaining activities during ethnic celebrations that include reading fortunes, ethnic games, sledging, ethnic dances, bean-feasts, wearing costumes, round dances and others. Young people used to participate in collecting foods, prizes, kolyadovaniye as well as to organizing games...
PRAYERS
PRAYERS are a verbal application to the deities uttered while praying (see Feast of sacrifice). Traditionally people spread P. orally, according to the ethnic beliefs, they were one of the most effective and safe ways to protect a person against diseases and bad luck. E.g. the Udmurt P. at the...
MOISEYEVA Svetlana Alekseyevna
MOISEYEVA Svetlana Alekseyevna (b. 19.12. 1968), folklorist. Candidate of Philology (2006). Her research is devoted to the ceremonial calendar and wedding folklore of Russian mining villages of Bashkortostan and the Southern Urals. Author of approx. 40 research papers.
MYTHS
MYTHS (from Greek mythos – fable, narrative) is the form of integrated mass experience and interpretation of reality by means of sensory-visual images that are considered to be independent phenomena in reality; a main way to understand the world in ancient society. M. has specific features, such as...
MYTHOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE BASHKIR LANGUAGE
“MYTHOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE BASHKIR LANGUAGE”, Bashkir-Russian dictionary of mythological vocabulary (Moscow, 2010). Compiled by F.G. Khisamitdinova. The dictionary includes about 5,000 words and phrases related to Bashkir mythology. The publication is a synthesis of mythological and explanatory...
MIRKHAYDAROV Mugallyam Shaykhattarovich
MIRKHAYDAROV Mugallyam Shaykhattarovich (18.2.1900–26.3.1974), teacher, poet, folklorist. A participant of the Civil War. M. collected the works of the Bashkir folklore: “Miney-Batyr and Tsar Shulgen”, aitysh “Khan’s daughter”, baits “We were thirty-two girls”, “Goat with a belt”, etc.; R. Z. Shakurov...
MIRBADALEVA Adelma Sabirovna
MIRBADALEVA Adelma Sabirovna (b.5.10. 1932, Moscow), folklorist. Doctor of Philology (1995). Graduated from MSU (1956). She studied and published scientific papers about epic monuments of Turkic-speaking peoples. Author of more than 30 scientific papers.
MIRAS
“MIRAS” (Heritage), folk song and dance ensemble. Created in 1992 in Ufa as a dance ensemble. Founder and first art director was G.V.Anishchenko. In 2007, the ensemble added a choir, and in 2009 – a troupe of Russian folk dance Zabava. The repertoire of the vocal and choreographic compositions reflected...
MINEY BATYR AND TSAR SHULGEN
“MINEY BATYR AND TSAR SHULGEN”, a monument to Bashkir literature, epos. The epos was registered from sesen M.S. Mirkhaydarov’s private archive. He was born in Askarovo the First village, Verkhneuralskiy District, Orenburg region (Askarovo village, Abzelilovskiy Disctrict, RB). The record...
MINNULLIN Kim Mugallimovich
MINNULLIN Kim Mugallimovich (b. 4.1. 1959), literary critic, folklorist. Corresponding member of the AS RT (2008), Doctor of Philology (2002), Professor (2006). Research is connected with the study of Tatar song poetry, poetics, and typology of Tatar folklore. M. also used folklore materials recorded...
MINNIYAKHMETOVA Tatyana Gilniyakhmetovna
MINNIYAKHMETOVA Tatyana Gilniyakhmetovna (b.3.1.1961), folklorist, ethnographer. Candidate of History (1996), Doctor of Philosophy (Hungary, 2003). Her research is devoted to folklore and ethnography of the Udmurts, as well as Bashkirs, Mari, Tatars, Estonians of Bashkortostan, development of methods...
MINGAZHITDINOVA Mavzifa Magafurovna
MINGAZHITDINOVA Mavzifa Magafurovna (6.9.1901–14.3.1989), a storyteller. She was a connoisseur of Bashkir oral folk art and skilled with words. In the 1960s, M. conveyed to M. Kh. Mingazhitdinov about 30 fairy tales; some of them are included in the set “Bashkort Khalyk Izhady”. The song “Goodbye, my...
MINGAZHITDINOV Marat Khalyafovich
MINGAZHITDINOV Marat Khalyafovich (18.5.1934–2.7.1972), literary critic, folklorist. Candidate of Philology (1964). His research is devoted to the study of epic genres of Bashkir folklore, folklore relationships, the study of the works of Kh. A. Davletshina, Nazar Nadzhmi, and other Bashkir writers....
MILYASH
“MILYASH”(“Rowan”) is a folklore ensemble of Cultural-leisure center, Abzelilovskiy district, RB. It was created in 2001, received the “national” title in 2003, “Best folklore ensemble of RB” title in 2006, “Honored collective of ethnic art of RF” in 2018. Its repertoire includes Bashkir songs, such...
MESAROSH Dyula
MESAROSH Dyula (28.3.1883–1957), ethnographer, orientalist, folklorist. Doctor of Turkic-Tatar Philology (1909). His research is associated with the study of folklore, languages, and ethnography of the peoples of the Ural-Volga region, including the Bashkirs. M. studied the problems of ethnogenetic...
MELODY OF FRIENDSHIP
“MELODY OF FRIENDSHIP” (“Duslyk mono”) i s a F. K u d a s h e v a i n t e r n a t i o n a l c o m p e t i t i o n o f p e r f o r m e r s o f B a s h k i r a n d T a t a r s o n g s. It has been held since 1991 in Neftekamsk in order to develop and enrich the cultures of fraternal...
