KULAYEV, Mstislav Aleksandrovich

KULAYEV, Mstislav Aleksandrovich [Mukhametkhan Sakhipgareyevich; 7.2.1873, Selo Ziyanchurino of Orsky Uyezd of Orenburg Gub. (Kuvandyksky Raion of Orenburg Obl.) — 1959, Kazan], Statesman, Linguist. Participant of the First World War and the Civil War. Graduated from the Kazan University (1902). Since 1918 Member of the Bashkir Government, since 1919 Chairman of the Government and Member of the Bashkir Military Revolutionary Committee. In March, he headed negotiations with representatives of the Central Soviet Power and participated in signing of The Agreement of the Central Soviet Power with the Bashkir Government on the Soviet Auto- nomous Bashkiriya. Scientific research is dedicated to phonetics, graphics, vocabulary, lexicography, grammar, historical development of the Bashkir language, linguistic and medical terminology, also to the Tatar language. Author of the primers: Basics of Sound Pronunciation and A-B-C Book for the Bashkirs (1912) and Elepey (1919; A-B-C Book).