The Bashkirs are a part of the huge Turkic world settled on territory from the Baltic and Black seas in the west up to the Ohotsky sea and the Pacific ocean in the east, from Caucasian up to Himalaya and Gindohushsky mountains in the south. The ethnic his tory of the Bashkirs and all the Turks totals thousand of years. They were in a structure of ancient turkic military - political unions and were in difficult ethno-cultural communication with many peoples, that predetermined mainly features of their material and spiritual culture. The subseque nt formation of the Bashkir culture passed in conditions of their interaction with slavic and Ugro - Finnish world.

The Bashkirs are not numerous people. Not once they were subjected to hardest trials, not once they were on the verge of extinction. Not wit hout reason the outstanding Russian writer, democrat Gleb Uspensky wrote with a pain: " The Bashkirs will be gone! Will be gone! The most of the Bashkirs will be gone! " (Uspensky G.I. from Orenburgs up to Ufa. Ufa, 1982). Hundred years since that time ha ve passed. However The Bashkirs have not gone: the nature has given him high vital potential. Moreover, he has introduced the appreciable contribution to a world civilization, samples of his art creativity convince that.

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