Today, within the walls of GCH "Bashkortostan" is an interregional scientific and practical conference on "The relevance and historical significance of the scientific and artistic and publicistic activities of Mukhametsalim Umetbaev".

Within the framework of the conference there is an exhibition-retrospective about the life and work of the Bashkir poet-educator Mukhametsalim Umetbayev and his and the pedigree-shaherae, which was presented to the local historian, the first head of the museum M. Umetbaev Gazimyan Ibragimov.

The welcoming speech of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bashkortostan was made by Leysan Yumaguzhina, Head of the Department of Ethnic and Cultural Development and Interregional Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture of the RB.

"Mukhametsalim Umetbaev left a bright mark in the culture and literature of the Bashkir people, made a great contribution to the preservation and popularization of his spiritual heritage. He owns works on history, literature, language and folklore, ethnography of the Bashkir people, textbooks for primary school, translations of works by Pushkin, Tolstoy, Ushinsky, and others. He is rightly considered the first Bashkir scholar to have laid the foundations of Bashkir science. In the republic they remember and honor Mukhametsalim Ishmukhametovich, annually there are memorial events, "said Leysan Rafikovna.

Doctor of Philology, Professor, a member of the Writers' Union, a laureate of the. G.Kiekbaeva, M.Gafuri and M.Umetbaeva Giniyat Kunafin made a report "Place and role of M. Umetbaev in the development of spiritual culture and literature of Bashkirs and other Turkic-speaking peoples of Russia".

Timergali Kilmuhametov - Doctor of Philology, professor, writer presented a report on the "System enlightenment worldview of the great Bashkir humanist enlightener M. Umetbaev".

Also in the conference were reports "The role of Bashkir folklore in the work of M. Umetbaev" by Z.Sharipova, doctor of philological sciences; "M. Umetbaev in encyclopedic editions" of the candidate of philological sciences L. Abdrakhmanova; "The activity of the museum M.Umetbaeva" by the head of the museum Z. Akhmadeeva.