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SMIRNOV Kuzma Alekseevich [10 (23) X 1917, der. Shikhmamat, now Map. ASSR - 29 XII 1963, Yoshkar-Ola] - Soviet composer and folklorist. Failed activist Arts Map. ASSR (1951). In 1946 he graduated from Leningrad. a conservatory in composition class with B. A. Arapov (previously studied with X. S. Kushnaryov and D. D. Shostakovich). In 1949-54 scientific. employee Mari n.-i. Institute of Language, Literature and History. That means. S.'s merit was the work of collecting, studying and publishing mar. musesfolklore; recorded approx. 700 songs and instru. tricks, carried out by sv. 50 treatments mar. Narsongs. He compiled collections: “Mari Songs” (1941, in USA and Mar.), “Songs of Oriental Mari” (“Ervel Mari Muro”, 1951), “120 Songs of Meadow Mari” (1955), “Songs of Mountain Mari” (1961) and others. for symph. Orchestra, which were the first attempt to withdraw the mar. music from folklore-ethnographic. framework.