Shonqar

Shonqar (, "Gerfalcon") is a Bashkir language monthly youth culture and entertainment magazine that has been published in Ufa since January 1994.

==History and profile== A concept of a general interest managazine for younger Bashkirs was first framed in 1990, when a team of journalists and editors started working within the editorial board of Agidel, the Bashkir-language literary magazine and publishing their materials in the parent magazine. In 1993, the first issue of Shonqar was published in the form of an almanach. Starting from January 1994, the magazine started to be published as a stand-alone monthly periodical. Within a matter of months, it won a wide popularity among teens all across Bashkortostan and in other regions of Russia.