Honored Artist of Crimea, singer Dilyaver Osmanov has been collecting folk songs and melodies bit by bit for more than 40 years. Today, he has about 600 folk songs in his collection. He is a true keeper of musical folklore. Dilyaver-aga collected invaluable material in the book “Qırımnıñ Çöl Yırları Ve Cıñları” (“The Songs and Cıñs of Crimean Steppe”), which will soon be published.