Abstract: In her research Kanokova examines different kinds of traditional female headgear of the Nogais used by all Nogai ethnographic groups since the 14th (creation of the Nogai Horde) till the 20th century (the final stage of the development of the national Nogai female costume). The author of the article describes their sign function. By carrying out an integral analysis of the research objects, the author studies their stylistics, manifacturing technique, decoration technique, and relation to customs and religious concepts. This allows to define the infant, maiden, wedding and grown-up female headwear. Due to the insufficient study of the matter, the author has also used the method of field ethnography besides general and special cultural and art historical methods. The novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the author discovers and carries out an integral analysis of a wide range of female headgear kinds described or recorded in written or graphic sources and held in museum or private collections of regions where Nogai ethnographic groups live. For the first time in the academic literature the author defines local particularities and general features that define Nogai headgear as an individual type of headwear. 

Abstract: The subject of this research is the works of one of the founders of visual art of Karachay-Cherkess Republic. The first professional Nogai painter – Karasov Yuri Baubekovich. The author conducts an art analysis of his artistic and graphic canvases from the ethnographic series “Nogai El”. The article determines the general style and circle of storylines of each composition, reveals the symbolic meaning of the key images, giving particular attention of examination of the compositional schemes, use of technical methods, reckoning of color formulas, and identification of the main coloristic preferences of the painter. The methods of art analysis of the oeuvres include the formal-stylistic and iconographic analysis of the entire series and separately depicted images. The author traces the process of creation of each composition, since the conception of the idea, until the final product; reveal the paths of creative search and sources of inspiration. The scientific novelty consists in introduction into the contemporary art studies of the circle of new, previously unrenowned compositions of the artist.

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The subject of this research is the sculptural and visual solutions of the stone-carved stelas of the Nogais in form of the tombstones. Carved headstones of anthropomorphic and stela forms were decorated with calligraphic carve, geometrical and floral ornaments, trine emblems “tamga”, with abundance of the Islamic symbols and subject compositions. The anthropomorphic headstones have the silhouettes of the traditional male headgear of Nogai people, while the subject compositions consists of the realistic images of male and female appurtenances, clothes, and tools. The topic of the research is highly relevant and revealed from the various perspectives by the modern ethnographers, historians, and experts of Nogai culture. The question of gender affiliation of the stone-carved stelas remains open within the reviewed materials. This article is first to conduct classification in accordance with the gender affiliation, as well as carry out hermeneutical reading of the figurative elements. The main results of the work are aimed at elimination of the established gap.