Review of the monograph "The Collection of Karachay-Balkar Folklore. Volume 6. Historical and Heroic Songs of the Karachays and Balkars / edited by B.A. Berberov; Institute of Humanitarian Research of the Kabardino-Balkarian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. – Nalchik: Print Center Publishing House, 2025. – 624 p. – ISBN 978-5-907951-91-4"

For many years, folklorists at the Kabardino-Balkarian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences have been compiling and preparing for publication the Collection of Karachay-Balkar Folklore. The Collection of Karachay-Balkar Folklore is a serial scholarly publication of artistically outstanding folklore works that are of great importance for the preservation and revival of the oral folklore heritage of these peoples. The purpose of the Collection is to publish both previously known works and to widely introduce unpublished materials and folk songs into scholarly circulation, identifying their historical and cultural significance, artistic features, and the genre specifics of the published texts. Publications and scholarly support in the form of commentary on the volumes of the Collection are comprehensive in nature, with particular attention paid to combining historical, philological, folkloristic, and ethnographic aspects. The monograph under review is dedicated to the publication "Historical and Heroic Songs of the Karachays and Balkars," the sixth volume of the "Collection of Karachay-Balkar Folklore." The publication under review fits seamlessly into the context of similar all-Russian fundamental publications such as the Collection of Folklore of the Peoples of Dagestan, the Collection of Folklore of the Peoples of Siberia, the Collection of Kalmyk Folklore, and others. The researchers were faced with the task of preserving known song texts, parallel translation into Russian, and creating an extensive scientific apparatus.

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