Firdaus G. Khisamitdinova

Doctor of Philology, Scientific Director of the Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ufa, Russian Federation)

Research Interests

Bashkir language, historical phonetics, onomastics, Bashkir mythology, methods of teaching the Bashkir language.

ORCID: 0000-0001-5997-9928

Scopus ID: 57192955858

Profile at RSCI: 158438

Brief scientific biography

In 1976, after graduating from the Bashkir State Pedagogical Institute, Firdaus Gilmitdinovna entered the graduate school of the Institute of Linguistics of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow). From 1978 to 1985. F. G. Khisamitdinova worked as a junior and then senior researcher at the Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Bashkir Branch of the Academy of Sciences. From 1985 to 1995 she worked as a senior lecturer, associate professor, head of the department, professor and dean at the Bashkir State Pedagogical Institute. From 1995 to 1998 F.G. Khisamitdinova worked as the Minister of Public Education of the Republic of Bashkortostan. Since 1998 — Deputy Director of the Institute of History, Language and Literature of the USC RAS. Since 2005 — Institute of History, Language and Literature USC RAS. Since 2016 — Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Bashkortostan. Since 2017 — Scientific Supervisor of the Institute of History, Language and Literature USC RAS. She has published about 200 scientific and scientific-methodical works, monographs, dictionaries, manuals, textbooks, anthologies, programs and articles.

Selected publications

Khisamitdinova F. G. History of the Bashkir language: Materials on historical phonetics. BashGPI. Ufa, 1989. 96 p.

Khisamitdinova F. G. Bashkir oikonymy of the 16th-19th centuries. Ufa: Bashknigoizdat, 1991.

Geographical names of Bashkortostan. Ufa, 1994.

Khisamitdinova F. G. History and culture of Bashkortostan: Reader. Moscow: MDS Publishing House, 1997. 548 p. (co-author Z. Ya. Sharipova and L. I. Nagaeva).

Khisamitdinova F. G. Bashkir mythology. Dictionary reference. Ufa; Gilem, 2002. 125 p. (In Bashkir).

Khisamitdinova F. G. Bashkirs. M.: Voice-Press, 2003. 575 p. (co-author Z. G. Uraksin).

Khisamitdinova F. G. Russian-Bashkir dictionary of street names of the cities of the Republic of Bashkortostan. Ufa: Delovaya dynastiya, 2008. 311 p.

Khisamitdinova F. G. Dictionary of Bashkir mythology. Ufa: IYAL UNC RAN, 2011.