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EYE DISEASE INSTITUTE, a research institute at the AS RB. Located in Ufa. Established in 1926. The Institute incorporates the Eye Disease Department and the Clinical Residency of the Medical University. Main activities: development of a system for comprehensive cornea treatment and refraction anomalies;...

EXPLORATION WELL GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY INSTITUTE, a research and designing/engineering institution, research and production enterprise (NPP). Located in Oktyabrsky Raion. Established in 1956. VNIIneftepromgeofizika (Ufa) and the Kalinin department of VNIIGIS (Tver) were established under the aegis of the...

EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY, an independent branch of state power, carrying out functions of state affairs management. E.a. accepts own resolutions and orders in execution of acts of legislative authority. In Bashkortostan, the functions of E.a. were performed by: Bashkir Government, Provisional Revolutionary...

ETHYLENE, a colorless gas with a slight scent. The production of ethylene was mastered in Bashkortostan in 1957 at the Ufa Plant of Synthetic Alcohols through the pyrolysis of petroleum gas (since 1968 through the pyrolysis of gasoline). Used in the synthetic ethanol manufacturing by method of its hydration,...

ETHNOGRAPHIC GROUPS, parts of ethnos, compactly living in a certain territory, preserving the peculiarities in the language and individual components of culture. Bashkirs are subdivided into South‑East., North‑East., North‑West., South‑West. E.g.; their ethnic basis was made up of the Mongolian and...

ETHNOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS of Bashkirs, include the objects of ethnos’ material culture and its local variants of ethnographic groups. The E.c. of Bashkirs were established during the Academic Expeditions of 1768 — 74, ethnographic expeditions, by scientists of the 18th — 21st centuries. At the Russian...

ETHNOGENESIS OF BASHKIRS, the process of the emergence and development of ethnic affinity; the initial phase of ethnic history of the ethnos. In ethnology, based on the materials on archaeography, archaeology, anthropology, comparative historical linguistics, etc, the Finno‑Ugric and Turkic theories...

ETHNIC GROUPS of Bashkirs, territorially isolated parts of ethnos, having peculiarities in the traditional culture, language and preserving ethnic identity. In the territory of the Volgo‑Ural historical‑ethnographic region, there are E.g. of Trans-Ural, Irgiz‑Kamelik, Kama‑Ik, Orenburg and Perm Bashkirs....

EQUESTRIAN SPORTS, equestrian competitions. In Bashkortostan, the Е.s. started its rapid development when the hippodrome was founded in Ufa in 1891. The first harness racing was held in 1892. An Е.s. school was established at the Bayramgulovsky state farm, Uchalinsky raion, the BASSR in 1970. An Е.s....

EPIC, a genre of the Bashk. folklore and folk literature. A narrative which could exists in different forms: poetic, prosaic, and mixed (poetic and prosaic). One of the oldest genres of folk poetry. E. reflects the people’s ideas about nature and life, their beliefs and customs. The Bashk. epic is distinguished...

ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY, an individual independent economic activity of a person or group of people aimed at obtaining profit or personal income. Helps to meet the needs of population in goods and services, and to create new jobs. It also improves territorial and sectoral structure of the economy and...

ENGINEERING BOARDING LYCEUM, a Republican secondary general education institution with advanced study of physical, mathematical, chemical and socio-economic disciplines. Founded in 1992 in Ufa by the agreement of the Ministry of Education of the RB and the Serkhat Turkish Firm with the name of Bashk....

ENDEMICS, the species, phylia and other animal and plant taxons that inhabit specific, relatively limited territory. More than 110 species of endemic higher vascular plants grow in the RB, out of which 19 are apomictic difficult to be distinguished “microspecies” of the lady’s mantle phylum. In the...

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS, scientific, popular scientific or popular reference publications on paper and electronic media. E. represent a systematized set of knowledge, contain basic information on individual or all branches of science and practical activity, set out in the form of short articles, arranged in...

EMPLOYMENT OF POPULATION, human activities, as a rule, income generating, related to satisfaction of their personal and social needs. The number of RB population employed in manufacturing, building and transportation industries in Bashkortostan decreased in the 2000s, while the number of employees of...

ELTSIN, Boris Mikhailovich (1875, Zvenigorodka of Kiev Gub. – 27.11.1937), Soviet Communist Party Activist. Member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party since 1897. Graduated from the Novo‑rossiysky University (Odessa, 1898). He was exiled to Ufa Gub. for his revolutionary activities. Since...

ELECTRONIC MEDIA (network media), a mode of information receiving through electronic networks and screen or radio. There are two types of E.m: 1) audiovisual and 2) newspapers, magazines, information agencies with electronic versions of their printed publications, and electronic publications in the...

ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY, a branch of mechanical engineering, associated with the manufacture of the electrical products for the production, transmission and consumption of electric energy. The largest industry enterprises: Avtonormal Plant, Ufimkabel, Ufa Aggregate Production Association, Elektroapparat,...

ELECTRIC-POWER INDUSTRY, industry specializing in the production, transmission and distribution of electric energy; it is the leading component of the energy sector. Brown coal, natural gas, and heavy residue serve as raw materials. A distinctive feature of the energy sector of the RB is the presence...

ELECTRIC MOTOR, an electrical machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy; most common are AC electric motors. In Bashkortostan electric motors are manufactured by the UAPO and Avtokomplekt Plant. In the 1950s, UAPO produced electric motors for aircraft, in 1960s – for motor vehicles,...