text: Ural-batır or Ural-batyr ( Bashkir: Урал-батыр) is the most famous kubair (epic poem) of the Bashkirs narrating, like many similar epics (the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf, the Germanic Nibelungenlied, the Mesopotamian Gilgamesh, or the Finnish/Karelian Kalevala) about heroic deeds and legendary creatures, formation of natural phenomena, etc.