The Haytarma ensemble, originally called the State Song and Dance Ensemble of the Crimean Tatars is a Crimean Tatar music and dance group. The group was formed in Simferopol in 1939 with the Crimean State Philharmonic with
Ilyas Bakhshish as artistic director,
Yaya Sherfedinov as musical director, and Usein Bakkal as choreographer. After the
deportation of the Crimean Tatars
The deportation of the Crimean Tatars (, Cyrillic: Къырымтатар халкъынынъ сюргюнлиги) or the ('exile') was the ethnic cleansing and the cultural genocide of at least 191,044 Crimean Tatars that was carried out ...
in 1944 the ensemble was abolished, but in 1957 the group was re-established in exile in
Uzbekistan
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The ensemble re-established in Crimea in 1992 after the
return of Crimean Tatars to Crimea.
Many famous Crimean Tatar artists worked for the ensemble at some point, including
Enver Sherfedinov Enver Sherfedinov (, ; 1 June 1936 – 22 November 2007) was a Crimean Tatar musician of Tayfa origin. He mastered playing 18 different musical instruments, but is most renowned for his violin music, earning himself the label of "The Crimean Tatar ...
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Sabriye Erecepova
Sabriye Erecepova (; 12 July 1912, Bakhchysarai, Bağçasaray, Taurida Governorate — 18 September 1977, Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic) was a Crimean Tatars, Crimean Tatar singer. She began working for the Crimean Radio Committee in 19 ...
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among many others.
Because of
censorship of the word "Crimean Tatar", the re-created group called itself the
Haytarma
''Haytarma'' () is a 2013 Ukrainian period drama film. It portrays Crimean Tatar flying ace and Hero of the Soviet Union Amet-khan Sultan against the background of the 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars. Haytarma means "return", but is also ...
ensemble instead of calling it the original name, the State Song and Dance Ensemble of the Crimean Tatars.
What songs the ensemble was allowed to perform during the exile era was heavily restricted by censorship, since songs that referenced Crimea or were perceived as alluding to Crimea were prohibited.
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* {{Cite book , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AL4WAQAAMAAJ , title=Биз - къырымлармыз!: Мы - крымцы!, date=2006, publisher=Aqmescit , isbn=9663541180, language=crh , trans-title=We are Crimeans! , ref={{harvid, Биз - къырымлармыз!: Мы - крымцы!, 2006
Folk dance companies
Crimean Tatar culture