BAIT, epichesky and liroepichesky a genre of the tatar and Bashkir folklore. It is composed, as a rule, from quatrians with rhymes for phylum aaba, abvb (see. A rhyme). Baity are predominary legendary - historical and pesenno-fantastic content.

BAIF (Baif) Jean Antoine de (1532-89), the French poet, the literary and church figure; diocesan Shalonsky. A team member "Pleiad". Books " Sonnets to Fransine " (1555), " Mimes, manuals and proverbs " (1576). A translator biblical psalmov and antique writers, the creator of Academy of poetry and music (1570).

BAIJA, city in Brazil, see. Salvador.

BAIJA (Bahia), staff on north-east of Brazil. 567 thousand êì2. The population 11,7 million person (1990). Adm. ts. - Salvador.

The BAIJA-FORM (Bahia Blanca), city and a port in a southeast of Argentina. 271 thousand inhabitants (1991, with suburbs). Oil refining and petrochemical, mjasohladobojnaja, a milling industry. University. It is based in 1828.

BAJ (bajtszy, bajni), people in China. Number of 1670 thousand person (1992). Tongue baj. Believers - Buddhists, a part - daosisty.

BAJ the BORE REVOLT, country revolt in Sierra Leone in nach. 1889 against injected the English colonialists of the tax to huts; leader Baj the Bore headed. It is suppressed{quenched} by the English troops.

BAJ TSZE, in the Chinese mythology an all-knowing entity, a saver of knowledge of spirits; it was figured by the way a white lion.

BOBAC (steppe marmot badger), mammalian a stem of marmot badgers. Length of a body up to 60 see. In steppes of the European part and the Sowing. Kazakhstan. It is small. Is under guarding{preservation}.

BAJDARA, veselnaja (sometimes with a flag) a boat for chukchej, koryaks, eskimos, etc.; the timber frame construction bajdary was fitted by a skin of a sea cow.

BAJDARATSKAJA the LIP, bay Karskogo in m. between a coast of mainland and p-ovom Yamal. Length ok. 180 kms. Width for an orifice of 78 kms, depth up to 20 m. Rivers Bajdarata, JUribej run.

KAYAK, fine-bored mild boat without tholes. Paddles 2-bladed. Sporting kayaks - whole with a wooden or plastic skin, tourist - folding with a wooden, metal or plastic hackberry and a skin from an impervious material.

BAJDARSKAJA the VALLEY, in a southwest part Crimean p-ova, on r. Black. Length of 16 kms, width up to 8 kms. On Bajdarskoj to a valley passes highway Yalta - Sevastopol. Tourism.

BAJDARSKIE the GATE, a saddle-point through Crimean mountains from Bajdarskoj valleys to Black m. An altitude of 503 m.

BAJDZHERAHI (Yakut)., ilovato-peaty bugry an altitude of 0,5-15 m and length up to 20 m. Will be derivated in outcome termokarstovyh processes in range of development of permfrost rocks.

BAJDUKOV George Filippovich (1907-94), the general - colonel of aircraft (1961), the Hero of Soviet Union (1936). In 1936-37 non-stop flights Moscow - about. Udd and Moscow - an arctic pole - the USA from V.P.Chkalovym and A.V.Beljakovym. In Great Domestic war the commander of an airdivision and an air corps. The state premium of the USSR (1970). The writer of books about flight to America.

"BAYER", the chemical company of Germany. It is based in 1863. Up to 1952 entered{included} in chemical concern " I.G.Farbenindustri " (Germany). Sales volume 23 billion dol., a net profit 1,05 billion dol., figure occupied in 165 thousand person (kon. 1980th).

BAYER (Baeyer) Adolf (1835-1917), german chemists - organics, the founder of large scientific school, foreign corresponding member Petersburg AN (1892). Basic transactionses on synthesis of dyes and alicyclic connections, stereochemistries. In 1883 has finished activity on synthesis and establishment of a structure of an indigo. Has entered (1888) concept about cis - trans-izomerii. The Nobel Prize (1905).

BAYER (Bayer) Gotlib Zigfrid (1694-1738), the german historian, the philologist, the academician Petersburg AN (1725). Transactionses on orientalistike and histories Other. Russia. The founder normannskoj theories.

BAYER (Baeyer) Iogann JAkob (1794-1885), the german geodesist, foreign corresponding member Petersburg AN (1858). Transactionses on grade measurements.