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The Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Republic was established in 1919, and became the Republic of Bashkortostan in 1990. Its capital is Ufa. Bashkortostan is located in the Ural Mountains and is home to ethnic Russians, Bashkirs, Tatars and a number of other nationalities. The Bashkir language is a Turkic language.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a preliminary guide to bibliographic tools for researchers of Bashkortostan. Though not a comprehensive overview, this guide outlines three primary ways for researchers to access bibliographic information about publications from Bashkortostan: <\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Through the Bashkir National Library online catalog<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Through the Russian National Library\u2019s Department of Literature in National Languages imprint catalog<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  3. The\u00a0letopis’ pechati\u00a0<\/em>for Bashkortostan<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This guide also highlights other resources related to Bashkir history, culture and language. Researchers may also want to consult the following online database for additional coverage: <\/span> Elektronnyi katalog knig na iazykakh narodov RF i stran SNG <\/a> on the homepage of the the Russian National Library. <\/span> This guide also highlights online resources \u2013 in particular the Bashkir National Library Electronic library <\/a> which has a select collection of digitized full-text documents. <\/span><\/p>\n

    Sources: The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Volume 3, page 50); the Official website of the Republic of Bashkortostan<\/a>;\u00a0<\/span>Ethnologue<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

    <\/a> LIBRARY CATALOGS<\/h2>\n

    Natsional’naia biblioteka imeni Akhmet-Zaki Validi Respubliki Bashkortostan<\/h3>\n

    http:\/\/www.bashnl.ru <\/a><\/p>\n

    The National Library of the Republic of Bashkortostan, named after Akhmet-Zaki Validi, was established in 1836. The library currently has over 3.3 million items.\u00a0The library’s electronic catalog (Elektronnyi katalog<\/a>) provides a way for users to obtain bibliographic information about the holdings at the national library. <\/span> There is no period of coverage given for this catalog, but its contents are assumed to reflect the holdings at the National Library. Users may search by material type, author, title, theme, year of publication, and location of publisher. There is also a virtual keyboard to type in Bashkir.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Results give the following information: author, title, location of publication, date of publication, the number of items available, BBK, and location.<\/p>\n

    <\/a> Katalog literatury na bashkirskom yazyke [microform]\u00a0Rossii\u0306skai\ufe20a\ufe21 nat\ufe20s\ufe21ional\u02b9nai\ufe20a\ufe21 biblioteka. Otdel literatury na nat\ufe20s\ufe21ional\u02b9nykh i\ufe20a\ufe21zykakh.<\/h3>\n

    New York: N. Ross, 1998. U of I Library\u00a0Call Number:<\/strong>\u00a0MFICHE 016.94743 R736k. \u00a0International and Area Studies Library, Microfilm Room.\u00a0OCLC Accession Number:<\/strong> 47066750.<\/p>\n

    The Russian National Library’s Department of Literature in National Languages [also known as the Department of National Literatures] of the Russian Federation,\u00a0Commonwealth of Independent States, and the Baltic countries has reproduced holdings catalogs in microfiche format.\u00a0The national languages imprints catalogs in microfiche format diffuse most of the difficulties associated with transliteration in the vernacular languages, spelling, forms of entry, and uncertainties with the entirety of the collection. Researchers can access the complete holdings for a specific language at the Russian National Library through the microfiche set, conveniently exporting selected titles via PDF scans.\u00a0The following scans reflect some of the Bashkir-language holdings available in microfiche format.<\/p>\n

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    Alt Text: Example of a bibliographic entry in microfiche format.<\/p>\n

    Bashkir national bibliography and\u00a0letopis’ pechati<\/em><\/h3>\n

    In the first decades of the Soviet period, the number of Bashkir-language publications strongly increased, primarily in the form of newspapers, journals, and books on a wide range of subjects. In order to create bibliographies to document and organize the growing body of literature published in the republic, a Book Chamber (knizhnaia palata<\/em>)\u00a0was established in the Bashkir ASSR in 1929. Rare books from the pre-revolutionary and Soviet periods were added to the collection, and as of 1960, the collection of local materials contained more than 200,000 items in Bashkir, Tatar and Russian. Publications from other republics such as Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tatarstan were also added to the collection of the Book Chamber.<\/p>\n

    Since 1935, the Book Chamber has published annually a letopis’ pechati<\/em> with a bibliographic overview of all the publications – books, brochures, and articles – of the republic for a particular year. Since 1964, a separate section has been included in the letopis’\u00a0<\/em>on Bashkir writers, Bashkir folklore, and literature on Bashkortostan published in other republics of the USSR. The knizhnaia letopis\u2019<\/em>\u00a0 published in the Soviet period consists of two sections: the first contains works in Bashkir and Tatar, and the second materials in Russian. The materials are organized alphabetically by author and by publication title.\u00a0In addition to the\u00a0letopis’ pechati<\/em> and the\u00a0khizhnaia letopis’<\/em>, the Book Chamber\u00a0has been publishing the l<\/em>etopis\u2019 pechati Respubliki Bashkortostan<\/em>, as well as the series Knigi Bashkortostana<\/em>\u00a0in Bashkir, Tatar, and Russian, and numerous bibliographies related to Bashkir history.\u00a0As of 2012, the Book Chamber’s collection included more than two million books, newspapers, and journals published in Bashkortostan. Annually, the Book Chamber publishes about 30,000 items in six languages: Bashkir, Russian, Marii, Tatar, Udmurt, and Chuvash.<\/p>\n

    Through WorldCat, users can find physical issues (e.g. OCLC 34048179) and digital issues (e.g. OCLC 742440864<\/a>) of the letopisi pechati.<\/p>\n

    Newspapers and magazines of Bashkortostan<\/h4>\n

    As of 1968, 241 books and pamphlets (1,658,000 copies printed) and 112 newspaper editions (966,000 copies printed) in Russian, Bashkir, Tatar, Mari, Chuvash and Udmurt were published. The following is a list of newspapers and their start dates of publication: <\/span> Sovet Bashqortostani<\/em> (1918), <\/span> Sovetskaia Bashkiriia<\/em> (1906; previous name Ufimskii rabochii<\/em>), <\/span> Kizil tan<\/em> (1918), <\/span> Leninse<\/em> (1923) and <\/span> Bashqortostan pionere<\/em> (1930). <\/span> The following is a list of magazines published and their start dates of publication: Agidel’<\/em> (1930), Baqortostan kizi<\/em> (1968), Khenek<\/em> (1925), Bashqortostan ukitiusikhi<\/em> (1924), Pioner<\/em> (1930) and Bloknot agitatora<\/em>. Users can consult Gazety SSSR 1917-1960: Bibliograficheskii spravochnik 5 <\/a> <\/em> for a more comprehensive list of newspapers published in Bashkortostan during these years.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Sources:\u00a0Gosudarstvennaia bibliografiia SSSR. Spravochnik. <\/em>(Moskva 1967), pp. 103-104;\u00a0Sorok let sovetskoi gosudarstvennoi bibliografii (1920-1960)<\/em> (1960), pp. 259-263;\u00a0\u201cGosudarstvennaia knizhnaia palata Respubliki Bashkortostan<\/a>\u201d, Bashkirskaia entsiklopediia;\u00a0The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Volume 3, page 50).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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    <\/a> ONLINE RESOURCES<\/h2>\n

    Natsional’naia elektronnaia biblioteka Respubliki Bashkortostan<\/h3>\n

    The electronic library<\/a> is a searchable collection of online documents available to users in full text format. Users can search the collection by keyword. Results give information about the title, the heading under which it appears, and the excerpt in which the key word appears. Some documents are available to all users online as full-text documents which can be read on the website. Other documents are only available to users with authorization. <\/span> When you click to read these particular documents you will be taken to a \u201clogin page.\u201d U\u00a0of I patrons can access these documents by registering on the site (free of charge). It can take up to a week to receive a confirmation email with password and login information. After obtaining this information, users should have access to all the materials on the website. Please note that due to maintenance issues, this website may time out, but his can be corrected by refreshing the page.<\/p>\n

    Users can browse the collections by the following topics: books about the Bashkirs, Bashkir-language books, bibliographies, literature for children and youth, multimedia, new arrivals, periodicals, manuscripts and rare books, and Russian and foreign literature. <\/span><\/p>\n

    The bibliographies section (<\/span>Bibliograficheskie posobiia<\/a>) may be especially useful for researchers and <\/span> includes (but is not limited to) the following bibliographies:<\/p>\n