Tatar fairy tale in the works of folklorists of the 40s-80s of the XX century

this article examines the period of development of the national Tatar folklore and traditions of studying the genre of fairy tales as a part of it. The stages of collecting, recording and publishing folklore materials on the mythology of the Kazan Tatars in general and on the study of the Tatar fairy tale in particular are outlined. The period we have chosen in the 40s-80s of the twentieth century was the development and popularization of ethnography as a science, marked by an increase in the level of culture among the peoples living in the USSR at that time. A theoretical justification of the Tatar fairy tale genre is proposed. The texts of scientific works of the specified period devoted to the analysis of national consciousness through Tatar mythological images and fairy-tale plots are studied.

Tatar folklore, national Tatar folklore, folk art, oral tradition