To Aktau (Kazakhstan) the Sabantuy-2013 took place. Participants of festive action had opportunity to see beautiful national customs, songs, dancings, ceremonies.

The akimat of Aktau, city branch of "Nour Otan" party, Assembly of the people of Kazakhstan of Mangistausky area, the Bashkir cultural center "Salavat", the Tatar ethno-cultural association "Bulgar", branch of Association Tatar and tataro-Bashkir cultural and the Idel public centers in Mangistausky area organized a holiday.

The program of a holiday provided traditional competitions and national entertainments: wrestling with bags, sack-race, rope pulling, wrestling khuresh. This type of wrestling on belts is considered the most ancient and main competition of a holiday which was connected with a nomadic life of ancestors the Bashkir and earlier having sacral value. The winner of competitions got a live ram — the main prize of a holiday of a plow. Bogdat Orysbay became the batyr of the Drinking bout-2013, the chairman of the Bashkir cultural center "Salavat" reported the Ural Aznabayev.

author: Arina Rakhimkulova, photo: Ural Aznabayev

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