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RAVEN PORRIDGE is a Bashkir tradition­ al holiday dedicated to the meeting of spring. It is connected with the ancient cult of birds – cult of the raven (see Cults) as well as with mythical and ritual ground burials: the birds would peck all the remains of a dead body after the snow would melt (and...

“RAVEN NESTLING” (“Bala karga”) is a Bashkir naigrysh music genre. First registered by A.S. Klucharyev in the 1930’s, published in the “Bashkort khalk yirdary” collection. The only vocal version of the naigrysh music genre is registered from K.M. Diyarov and published in the “Sal Uraldyn mondary” book....

“REVIVAL” a c e n t e r o f P o l i s h c u l t u r e a n d e d u c a t i o n i n B a s h ­ k o r t o s t a n, an NGO established in Ufa in 1997. Events held annually with participation of “R.”: Days of Polish Culture in Bashkorto­ stan, traditional holidays “Dozhinky”, “Za­ pusty”, “Gaik Green”, etc.;...

REPUBLICAN CENTRE OF SOCIAL SERVICES. It provides support in realization of legal rights and interests to families, children and citizens in hardship, support in improving their social and material well-being, as well as psychological condition. Founded in Ufa in 2016. Consists of departments of Analysis...

ROAD CONSTRUCTION AND PUBLIC UTILITY ENGINEERING, a branch of mechanical engineering, associated with the production of road, earth-moving and construction machinery, equipment for the building materials industry, peat and timber industry, reclamation works, municipal engineering, household service...

RUSSIANS ASSEMBLY OF BASHKORTOSTAN, a republican public organization established in order to preserve the spiritual culture and language, unity and patriotism of the Russian people in the RB. Located in Ufa. Founded in 1998, it now has both city and raion executive committees. The main directions of...

RURAL CONSTRUCTION, a construction industry, specializing in the erection and reconstruction of the facilities in rural areas (livestock and poultry farms, enterprises for repair of agricultural machinery, storage and processing of agricultural products, land reclamation facilities, electrification,...

RYABCHIKOV, Vasily Rodionovich (6.8. 1904, Derevnya Kokoryovo of Smolensk Gub. – 1986, Moscow), Statesman. Laureate of the 2nd Class Stalin Award (1949). Awarded with the Order of Lenin (1945, 1959), Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1944, 1948, 1952, 1971). Graduated from the Moscow Gubkin Petroleum...

RYLENKO, Vladimir Danilovich (7.11.1927, Selo Novo‑Troitskoye of Sterlitamaksky Canton of the BASSR, now Fyodorovsky Raion of the RB, – 1.6.2015, Ufa), Statesman. Lieutenant General (1975). Merited Lawyer of the BASSR (1987). Awarded with the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1967, 1977), Order of...

RYKIN, Roman Vladimirovich (b.11.10. 1974 in Ufa), Ballet Dancer. People’s Artist of the RB (1993). Graduated from the Ufa Choreographic School (1993). Since 1991, Soloist at the Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theatre. Since 1994 he worked in the English National Ballet, since 1996 – in the San‑Francisco...

RYZHOV, Alexey Andreyevich (b.10.7. 1931 in Selo Kavetka of Chishmy Raion of the BASSR), Mechanical Engineer. Merited Acad. of the AS RB (1995), Dr. of Engineering (1970). Merited Scientist and Engineer of the BASSR (1975), Merited Machine Builder of the RB (1995). Laureate of the State Award of the...

RUTMAN, Grigory Iosifovich (22.2.1929, Mestechko Streshino of Belorussian SSR – 21.6.2001, Sterlitamak), Chemical Technologist. D.Sci. (Chemical Sciences) (1983), Full Professor (1987). Merited Chemist of BASSR (1989), Inventor of the USSR (1976). Laureate of the USSR State Award (1978). Awarded with...

RUSSO­JAPANESE WAR OF 1904—05, a war for the division of spheres of influence in the NE China and Korea. The Russian Army in the Far East included the 214th Mokshansky (Commander — Colonel P.P.Pobyvanets), 242nd Belebeyevsky (Colonel Vorobyov), 243rd Zlatoustovsky (Colonel Ogloblev), 282nd Chernoyarsky...

RUSSIAN-­BASHKIR DICTIONARY (Uryssa‑bashkortsa huzlek). It was prepared by a group of linguists of the History, Language and Literature Institute under the editorship of Z.G.Uraksin. Contains over 60 thous. words of modern Russian literary language, the majority of which are the most common words, as...

RUSSIANS (self‑identified as Russians), people, the dominant population of Russia. There lived 1,432.9 thous. Russians in the RB in 2010. R. comprised more than half of the population of Beloretsk, Birsk, Blagoveshchensk, Ishimbay, Kumertau, Mezhgorye, and Salavat. In the rural areas R. mostly live...

RUDENKO, Sergey Ivanovich (29.1.1885, Harkov — 16.7.1969, Leningrad), an ethnographer, anthropologist, archaeologist, geogra‑pher, hydrologist. Dr.Sci (Technical Sciences, 1945), Full Professor (1919). Awarded the Badge of Honour (1954). Graduated from St. Petersburg University (1910). Since 1921, he...

RUBRUCK, William (between 1215 and 1220 – 1293), Flemish Traveller, Monk. Between 1253– 55 he headed a diplomatic mission sent by French King Louis IX to the Mongol Empire. The route he traveled went through the Ural steppes. Author of the book titled The Journey to the Oriental Countries, containing...

ROSHCHINSKY, GUSP, state collective farm. A largest agricultural industry corporation in the RB. It was founded in 1979 as Spartak pig farm under the Bashkir Pig Industry Multicorporate Enterprise; since 1980 R. State Collective Farm; since 1995 R. State Agricultural Enterprise; since 1997 an affiliate...

ROSSIYA, ООО, a stud farm. Specializes in breeding and sale of pedigree cattle of black and white breed (since 2000), production and sale of milk, meat, food grain, elite seeds of grain and leguminous crops (since 2001). Located in Dyurtyulinsky Raion, the central farm is in Selo Starobaishevo. Founded...

RUSSIAN ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY under the Central Muslim Spiritual Board, a private institution of higher education. Founded in 1999 in Ufa as the R.Fakhretdin Russian Islamic University on the basis of the R.Fakhretdin Madrassa, which was established in 1989. The University received its modern name and...