TO THE PROBLEM OF THE FORMATION OF THE GENRES OF THE PROFESSIONAL BASHKIR VARIETY DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR
The article identifies the wartime period of history of the professional Bashkir variety art performance. On the basis of the analysis mainly unpublished archival documents of the wartime, local periodicals, the features of organization of variety activity in the rear and at the front are revealed under the auspice of the Bashkir State philharmonic society, the only one during that time in BASSR state concert organization. The author gives information about how the variety brigade of the philharmonic society were formed, their composition and repertoire, including their creative interaction with evacuated to Bashkiria musicians, theatrical and variety actors of Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev and other front-line cities. The article gives the facts about the military biography of some well-known Leningrad variety actors: Pavel Aydarov, John Danker, Simon Kagan, Arrago (R. S. Levitin) previously not mentioned in the literature. The period of the Great Patriotic War is considered as one of the most fruitful in in terms of professionalization of variety and concert life, in the formation of the Bashkir national stage, in finding of a wide audience, in finding of experience of creative activity by the first generation of professional actors of the Bashkir variety.