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NASIKHAT (from Arabic - instruction, in Bashkir ethnic pedagogy, it is a didactic saying aimed to create a proper attitude in person to the external and internal world, to transfer moral norms, etc. Its idea is close to benevolence. As a rule, N. is transmitted by a person from the elder generation...

NAURUZ is a common for Turkic-speaking and Iranian-speaking peoples’ celebration dedicated to the New Year according to the sun calendar. It started on March 21, the day of spring equinox and lasted for 3-7 days (other sources suggest it lasted up to the end of the nauruz month). The place for celebration,...

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PARTS OF FOLKLORE. National image of people is formed by common territory, language, agriculture, peculiarities of culture and national character. It is clearly represented by folklore as a part of culture. The republic of Bashkortostan is the home of representatives of more...

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RB. Located in Ufa. Founded in 1864. There are branches in Dyurtyuli, Tuymazy, Ufa, Uchaly cities and Abzelilovskiy, Baymakskiy, Belebeyevskiy, Ishimbayskiy. Salavatskiy districts. The museum consists of archeology, ethnography, local history, living nature departments, 34 expositional...

NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF FOLK INSTRUMENTS OF THE RB. It was created in 2001 at the Bashkir Philharmonia. The founder, the 1st Dir. and the Artistic Managing Dir. was R.M.Gayzullin, the Merited Artist of the RF and the People’s Artist of the RB. The first concert took place on October 1st, 2001. The works...

NON‑FAIRYTALE ETHNIC PROSE. It is represented by bylichkas, lore, stories-memories and other folklore genres. Motifs of Bashkir folklore were partly borrowed by Russian tellers and storytellers of other RB peoples who had moved to the territory in the 18–19th c. The popular plots are – protests against...

NECHVALODA Elena Yevgenyevna (b. 4.8.1968), ethnographer. Candidate of History (1998). Her research papers are devoted to decorative and applied arts and crafts of Bashkirs, the traditional clothing of the peoples of the Volga-Ural region, as well as song folklore, mythical stories, and ethnography...

NIGMAT KHAKIM (real name Khakimov Nigmatulla Giniyatullovich; 29.12.1889 – 3.8.1937), turkologist, poet. His research is devoted to the development of the Turkic languages and grammar of the Tatar language. Author of more than 50 research papers. Recorded one of the versions of the epic “Idegey” (see...

NEW FIRE is an Udmurt ritual that took place during the period of preparations and celebration of the Great day. On the calendar New Year’s Eve people used to extinguish the “old” fire in the houses, to commemorate the dead (the Wednesday of the first week was considered to be the day before the dead...

NUGUSH is the character from the “Ural-batyr” epic, the second son of Ural-batyr. N. is very strong and valorous from early childhood. When diyu attack their country and flood it, 6-year-old batyr makes a boat and saves his people from the flood; he destroys all the snakes including Zarkum. Having received...

“NIGHTINGALE” (“Handugas”), Bashkir ethnic  song,  uzun-kyuy.  First  recorded  by A.A.  Eichenwald  in  1928,  published  in  the “Bashkort Khalk Yirdary” digest in the record by K.Yu. Rakhimov. Lyric song. N. glorifies the beauty of the Bashk. region. The virtuosity of the melody combined with the...