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Music in Bashkortostan is the music of the peoples who live in Bashkortostan (Bashkirs, Russians, Tatars, Chuvashs, Mari, Udmurts, Ukrainians and others).
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Music in Bashkortostan is the music of the peoples who live in Bashkortostan (Bashkirs, Russians, Tatars, Chuvashs, Mari, Udmurts, Ukrainians and others).
The first major study of the music of Bashkortostan appeared in 1897, when ethnographer Rybakov S.G. wrote Music and Songs of the Ural's Muslims and Studies of Their Way of Life. Later, Lebedinskiy L.N. collected numerous folk songs in Bashkortostan beginning in 1930. The 1968 foundation of the Ufa State Institute of Arts sponsored research in the field.
The quray (end-blown flute) is the most important instrument in the Bashkir ensemble; it is made from a special reed found only in the Ural Mountains. It is used in both traditional and modern popular music. Zahir Bayiq played some Enigma and own melodies (Quray-Dance CD).
The National Symphonic Orchestra of the Bashkortostan Republic was founded in 1992 under the leadership of Tahir Kamalov. It emerged as one of the major symphonies in late 20th century Russia.
G. Gaskarav, the first artistic leader of folk theatrical choreography of the Bashkir, founded a professional folk dance ensemble in 1939. This band has travelled across much of the world.
The Bashkirs are a Kipchak Turkic ethnic group, indigenous to Russia. They are concentrated in Bashkortostan, a republic of the Russian Federation and in the broader historical region of Badzhgard, which spans both sides of the Ural Mountains, where Eastern Europe meets North Asia. Smaller communities of Bashkirs also live in the Republic of Tatarstan, the oblasts of Perm Krai, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Tyumen, Sverdlovsk and Kurgan and other regions in Russia; sizable minorities exist in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Ufa is the largest city and capital of Bashkortostan, Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Belaya and Ufa rivers, in the centre-north of Bashkortostan, on hills forming the Ufa Plateau to the west of the southern Ural Mountains, with a population of over 1.1 million residents, up to 1.4 million residents in the urban agglomeration. Ufa is the tenth-most populous city in Russia, and the fourth-most populous city in the Volga Federal District.
Bashkortostan, officially the Republic of Bashkortostan, also known as Bashkiria, is a republic of Russia located between the Volga and the Ural Mountains in Eastern Europe. It covers 143,600 square kilometres and has a population of 4 million. It is the seventh-most populous federal subject in Russia and the most populous republic. Its capital and largest city is Ufa.
Salawat Yulayev was a Bashkir national hero who participated in Pugachev's Rebellion, warrior, poet and singer.
The state anthem of the Republic of Bashkortostan is the regional anthem of the Russian federal subject of Bashkortostan, adopted on 12 October 1993 and officially on 18 September 2008. It is annexed to the article 112 Constitution of the Republic of Bashkortostan as one of the national symbols of Bashkortostan.
The history of Bashkortostan or Bashkiria covers the region in and around the Southern Urals, historically inhabited by Bashkirs. The region has been known by several names, including al-Bashgird, Bashgirdia, Bascardia, Fiyafi Bashqyrt, Pascatir and similar variants. As with previous names, the modern federal subject of Bashkortostan was named after the native Bashkir people.
Majit Gafuri was a Bashkir and Tatar poet, writer, and playwright. He was one of the leaders of the democratic trend in Tatar literature and one of the founders of national children's literature.
Mukhamet Hadisovich Kharrasov is a Russian physicist, member of the Academy of Sciences of Bashkortostan (2002), Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1995), Professor (1996), rector of the Bashkir State University (2000-2010), honored worker of Science Russia (2008) and Bashkortostan (1997), Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (2008), Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of Russia (2002), Excellence in Ministry of Education (2003).
Zagir Garipovich Ismagilov was a Soviet Bashkir composer and pedagogue. He was granted the title People's Artist of the USSR in 1982, and was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1943. The performing arts center in Ufa, Russia is named after him. The first rector and founder of the Ufa Institute of arts (1968–1988).
Zainab Biisheva (Bashkir: Зәйнәб Биишева, real name Zainab Abdullovna Biisheva, 15 January 1908, village of Tuembetovo, was a Bashkir poet, writer and playwright.
Utyz Imyani, Gabdrakhim — was a tatar poet. In the Islamic world he was also known as a scientist and recoverer of lost fragments of an ancient Quran.
Rinad Salavatovich Yulmukhametov is a Russian mathematician.
Gaisa Khamidullovich Enikeev was a teacher, ethnographer, and deputy of the State Duma in its third and fourth convocations from the Kazan and Orenburg Governorates from 1907 to 1917. He paid special attention to the protection of the interests of the Muslim population of Russian Empire. Prior to his election to the Duma, he served as the director of a cloth factory in Simbirsk Governorate and the chief administrator of the charitable and educational institutions of Kazan. He was a member of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma in the period of the February Revolution and the organizer of the First All-Russian Muslim Congress in May 1917. During the Soviet era, he was a member of the board of the Vyatka Commissariat of Education and an inspector of Bashselkhozkredit; became also known as a professional connoisseur of Tatar and Bashkir folklore.
Sergey Petrovich Izotov was a Soviet major scientist and designer of aircraft engines. Izotov was the Chief Designer and General Designer of OKB-117 from 1960-1983. General Designer Leningrad NPO named after V. I. Klimov. Hero of Socialist Labour. Winner of Lenin Prize, Stalin Prize first degree and USSR State Prize. Honored Scientist and Technician of the RSFSR. Doctor of Technical Sciences (1968). Candidate for corresponding members of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Author of 30 scientific papers and 13 inventions. Freeman of the city of Rzeszów (Poland). Delegate of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Jalil Giniyatovich Keyekbaev was a Bashkir linguist, Turkologist, doctor of philological sciences (1960), professor (1961), writer and member of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Writers' Union. He is the founder of Bashkir linguistics and of the modern Bashkir school of Ural–Altaic languages.
Miftakhetdin Kamaletdinovich Kamaletdinov, known as Akmulla (1831–1895) was a Bashkir, Kazakh and Tatar educator, poet and philosopher.
Birsk State Pedagogical Institute is a higher education institution founded on 27 June 1939 to train highly qualified teaching staff. Reorganized on 9 February 2012 by joining Bashkir State University as a branch.
The last of Thartay kin – monument of medieval Bashkir folklore.
Bandabika and Yaransa - Bashkir legend of the wise woman Bandabika and the poet Yaransa.
The crane song is a Bashkir folk tale and song. Based on this fairy tale, the ballet "Crane Song" was staged in 1944.