Background
DIVAYEV, Abubakir was born on December 19, 1856.
ethnographer folklorist linguist
DIVAYEV, Abubakir was born on December 19, 1856.
Graduate Neplyuyev Cadet Corps, Orenburg.
From 1876 worked for mii-national admin in Tashkent. In 1920's and 1930's professor, Centr Asian Institute and Turkestani Eastern Institute. Also directed Department to Ethnography and Department of Archeology at the Regional Museum in Tashkent.
Wrote numerous works on folklore, ethnography and language of Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Kirghiz and Karakalpaks. Printed in Izvestiya Obshchestva arkheologii, istorii i etnografii pri Kazanskom universitete, Zapiski Vostochnogo otdela Russkogo arkhivnogo obshchestva, ectJ.