The symposium, which began with a visit by the guests to the visitor center of the Eurasian museum of nomadic civilizations, the "Toratau" geopark and familiarization with Ufa museums and places of interest, ended with an exhibition at the "Shulgan-Tash" museum complex.
Artists from Iran, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan took part in it. Their work is an appeal to folk traditions and customs.
The symposium was attended by only 15 artists from abroad and regions of Russia. As a result, the collection of the gallery of the Eurasian museum of nomadic civilizations was replenished with 24 works. These are not only paintings, but also felt panels and carpets, each of which will bring its own colors to the Eurasian museum of nomadic civilizations.
On november 20-21, Ufa hosted the international scientific and practical conference "The nomadic world of Central Eurasia in antiquity and the Middle Ages" (III Mazhitov Readings).
More than a hundred scientists and specialists, including from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Uzbekistan and leading institutes of the country, participate in the mazhitov readings. The purpose of the conference is to discuss with domestic and foreign scientists the urgent tasks of the ancient and medieval archeology of Central Eurasia, as well as the implementation of the Eurasian museum of nomadic civilizations project.
The conference is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of an outstanding scientist, historian, who is considered one of the founders of Bashkir archaeological science - Niyaz Mazhitov. Thanks to Mazhitov's work, Bashkortostan is one of the most interesting regions on the archaeological map of the country today, and his legacy will take its rightful and honorable place in the Eurasian museum of nomadic civilizations, said Danir Gainullin, director of the Scientific and Production Center for the protection and use of Immovable cultural heritage sites of the Republic of Bashkortostan.
Currently, archaeological excavations have continued in the areas adjacent to the mausoleum. A total of 24 burials were studied, among which a series of burials performed according to the early muslim rite stands out.
According to anthropological data, this is a mixed caucasoid-mongoloid component with a predominance of the caucasoid component. The craniological series is similar to the skulls from the nomadic burials of the mongolian period in Southern Kazakhstan, as well as the burial grounds of the medieval nomadic population in northeastern Bashkiria.
According to written sources and information from local historians, before the advent of soviet power, the hill on which the mausoleum stands was covered with many vertically standing tombstones. Only one slab was saved and digitized. The translation of the epitaph says that Yarmi-by from the bashkir Kobau family is buried here. The upper part of the slab is crowned with a stylized floral ornament in the form of a flower bud.