''Shonqar'' ( ba, Шоңҡар, "Gerfalcon") is a

Bashkir language Bashkir (, ; Bashkir: ''Bashqortsa'', ''Bashqort tele'', ) is a Turkic language belonging to the Kipchak branch. It is co-official with Russian in Bashkortostan. It is spoken by approximately 1.4 million native speakers in Russia, as well as i ...

monthly youth culture and entertainment magazine that has been published in

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since January 1994.

History and profile

A concept of a general interest managazine for younger

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was first framed in 1990, when a team of journalists and editors started working within the editorial board of ''

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'', the Bashkir-language

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and publishing their materials in the parent magazine. In 1993, the first issue of ''Shonqar'' was published in the form of an almanach. Starting from January 1994, the magazine started to be published as a stand-alone monthly periodical. Within a matter of months, it won a wide popularity among teens all across

Bashkortostan The Republic of Bashkortostan or Bashkortostan ( ba, Башҡортостан Республикаһы, Bashqortostan Respublikahy; russian: Республика Башкортостан, Respublika Bashkortostan),; russian: Респу́блик� ...

and in other regions of Russia. To date, the magazine has become an important youth forum on Bashkir traditional culture, nurturing Bashkirt ethnic consciousness and publishing prominent regional public figures, including Ravil Bikbayev, Yihat Soltanov, Rashit Soltangaraev. Its circulation in 2010 was 5000. Its current

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is Azamat Yuldashbayev.

References

The magazine's web-site (Bashkir language)

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