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“UZAK-TUZAK – THE LAST OF BALABASHNYAK FAMILY”, monument of Bashkir literature, epic. It has poetic and prose form. It was registered in 1981 in Yunusovo village, Mechetlinskiy District, BASSR by N.D. Shunkarov from R.M. Akhtarov. The epic shows the struggle between Polovtsians and Pechenegs, the defeat...

UZBEK ETHNIC CULTURAL CENTER i n  B a s h k o r t o s t a n, a NGO established in Ufa in 2003. Establishes and maintains contacts with Uzbek communities in other Russian regions, and with Uzbekistan. Folk bands from Uzbekistan that performed in Ufa by invitation from the center: “Navruz” folk instruments...

UZLYAU, the Bashkirs solo two-voice guttural singing, in which on the background of low tone (bourdon) there is a high whistling sound of a fioritric nature (combination of overtone sounds and derivatives from the lower tone). Similar to the kuray and kubyz playing technique. The earliest information...

UZUN-KYUY (literally – a long tune), in the Bashk. music folklore refers to a melodic style; a genre of the Bashkir ethnic music. The U.-k. performance is the top-stone of the Bashkirs’ singing art. The U.-k. performers have mostly high male (tenors) and female (soprano) voices. The first samples of...