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ANTHROPOLOGICAL TYPES
ANTHROPOLOGICAL TYPES, a system of inherited human features, characteristic of a certain group of people. A.t. are formed as a result of racogenesis and ethnogenesis. As a result of a research, there are 4 basic A.t. of Bashkirs: Sub-Ural, Pontian, Light Europeoid, South Siberian. The Sub-Ural type...
ANSERIFORMES
ANSERIFORMES, an order of birds. There are 2 known families and about 150 know species. There are 33 species of Anatidae family in the RB. Waterfowl, migratory birds of large (swans with body length up to 180 cm, and body mass up to 13.6 kg) and medium (common teal with body length up to 38 cm and body...
ANNUAL GRASSES
ANNUAL GRASSES, a group of agricultural plants with a life cycle of a single year. After ripening their seeds the plant dies. Cultivated for hay, green fodder or pasture. They give high yields of herbage, have a fairly high nutritional value. There are legumes (spring and winter vetch, annual clover,...
ANIMATED FILMS
ANIMATED FILMS, a type of cinema art works which are created by phase-by-stage shooting of drawings and three-dimensional compositions. In Bashkortostan, the first animated film was shot in 1967 by A.M.Valeyev (The Adventures of Petya Petrushin, a puppet film). In the 1980s, animated films were made,...
ANIMALS AND BIRDS CULT
ANIMALS AND BIRDS CULT, zoolatry, religious veneration based on the concept of a certain kinship between man and a totem animal or bird, endowing supernatural properties to it (ref. Totemism, Cult of ancestors). Having changed, it partially survived and found reflection in the various aspects of culture.
The...
ANCIENT UFA
ANCIENT UFA, a Republican history and culture museum and reserve. Located in Ufa. Founded in 2011 in order to preserve, popularize and study the Gorodishche Ufa II archeological artifact of federal significance. Dating back to the 4th and 14th centuries AD, this artifact is the main cultural heritage...
AMZINSKY LESOKOMBINAT
AMZINSKY LESOKOMBINAT, AO. Performs the full production cycle: harvesting, mechanical and added-value chemical processing of wood. Produces merchantable wood, lumber, solid wood furniture, board parquet, firewood, trim molding, charcoal, ethyl acetate, wood resin, activated carbon, vinegar acid, etc....
AMPHIBIANS
AMPHIBIANS (Amphibia), a class of vertebrates. There are about 4500 known species. There are tailed and tail less orders of A. with 12 species. They have body length range of 4–12 cm. Adult species eat animal food, while larvae eat small invertebrates and sea weed. A. lead aquatic, paraaquatic and terrestrial...
AMIROV, Mubarakyan Vasfiyevich
AMIROV, Mubarakyan Vasfiyevich [3.7. 1886, Derevnya Burayevo of Birsky Uyezd of Ufa Gub. (Burayevsky Raion of the RB) – 7.3.1968, Ufa], Librarian, Bibliographer. After graduating from the Gusmaniya madrassa (Ufa, 1906), he worked as a teacher at rural schools. Since 1911 – worked at Shark...
AMIROV, Gilvan Gilmutdinovich
AMIROV, Gilvan Gilmutdinovich (12.5. 1916, Ufa – 1.6.1991, Ibid.), Cameraman. Merited Cultural Worker of the RSFSR (1977), Merited Artist of the BASSR (1948). Completed a training course at the Vostokkino Yalta Film Factory (1932). Between 1933–41, he worked as an assistant cameraman at the Ufa Newsreel...
AMBASSADORS OF THE URALS
AMBASSADORS OF THE URALS (Ural Ilselere), the opera by Z.G.Ismagilov in 3 acts based on the drama of I.I.Dilmukhametov Living Land. Written in 1981. The premiere took place on March 30th, 1982 on the stage of the Palace of Culture and Technology of OAO UZEMIK (libretto by Dilmukhametov, music director...
AMATEUR ART GROUPS
AMATEUR ART GROUPS is one of the forms of individual and collective folk art. Implies the creation and execution of art works by amateurs. Participants of the amateur art groups are either members of various art teams under the cultural and leisure institutions, educational institutions and other organizations...
AMANTAY (Amantayev), Gabdulla Gareyicevh
AMANTAY (Amantayev), Gabdulla Gareyicevh (23.2.1907, Derevnya Verkhne-Kunakbayevo of Orenb. Uyezd of the same name gub. (now Selo Verkhne-Kunakbay of Perevolotsky Raion of Orenb. Obl.) — 10.7.1938), Writer and Philologist. Member of the Union of Writers of the BASSR. Studied in the Khusainiya Madrasa....
ALYAN
ALYAN, a mountain, a natural monument (2003). Located 4 km W of Selo Abzanovo of Zianchurinsky Raion. Abs. alt. — 359 m. There are caves; the slopes are steep. There are rare species of plants: Astragalus helmii, Stipa korshinskyi, Fritillaria ruthenica, Galatella divaricata, Tulipa Biebersteiniana,...
ALTYN SOLOK
ALTYN SOLOK (Golden Wild Hive), zoological wildlife reserve of 90.7 thous. ha in the territory of Burzyansky Raion. Organized to protect and restore the population of the Bashkir bee (1997). In 2012, it was included in Bashkir Ural Biosphere Reserve. Within the territory of A.S. there is Masim Mountain...
ALTITUDINAL ZONATION OF LANDSCAPES
ALTITUDINAL ZONATION OF LANDSCAPES, the regular change of landscapes in the mountains with the change of altitude is similar to that of the latitudinal natural zones. With the growth of absolute altitude, the following parameters change: air temperature, the quantity of atmospheric precipitations, atmospheric...
ALSHEYEVSKY RAION
ALSHEYEVSKY RAION, located in the SW of the RB. Established on January 31st, 1935. Territory – 2,415 km2. Adm. centre – Selo Rayevsky, which is located 125 km SW of Ufa. Population – 38.4 thous. people (2017). In 2017 the area of agricultural lands amounted to 185 thous. ha (77% of the total area),...
ALPHABET
ALPHABET, a system of graphical characters – letters, conveying the sound image of the language by means of symbols, representing individual sound elements. Bashkirs used family signs before alphabetic writing, they were familiar with runic writing. With the adoption of Islam, the Arabic script began...
ALPAMYSHA AND BARSYNKHYLU
ALPAMYSHA AND BARSYNKHYLU (Alpamysha menen Barsynkhylu), a monumental epic work of Bashkir literature. Written in a combined poetic and prosaic form. First recorded by A.G.Bessonov in Orenb. Gub. at the end of the 19th — early 20th century. Various versions of the epic poem under the title Alpamysha,...
ALMUKHAMETOV, Khamit Khuzhiakhmetovich
ALMUKHAMETOV, Khamit Khuzhiakhmetovich, Khamit-sesen [1861, Derevnya Itkulovo 2nd of Verkhneuralsky Uyezd of Orenb. Gub. (now Baymaksky Raion of the RB) — 1923, ibid.] Sesen. A distinguished performer of the Uzunkyuy on kurai and connoisseur of the Bashkir folklore (kubairs, irtyaks). In 1910, at...
