Cheboksary is the capital city of Chuvashia, Russia. It is a port on the Volga River.
Morgaushsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Chuvash Republic, Russia. It is located in the north of the republic and borders with the Mari El Republic in the north, Cheboksarsky District in the east, Alikovsky District in the south, and with Yadrinsky District in the west. The area of the district is 845.3 square kilometers (326.4 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality of Morgaushi. Population: 34,884 (2010 Census); 37,127 (2002 Census); 38,465 (1989 Soviet census).
The Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theater is an opera and ballet theater in Cheboksary, Chuvashia (Russia). Initially, it was known as the Chuvash Musical Theater, but was given its present name in 1993.
The Chuvash National Congress, is an interregional public organization, which unites creative and national cultural potential of the Chuvash people.
Dimitri Vladimirovich Isayev was a Chuvash writer and literary critic. He was a prolific writer of short stories about the lives of young people in the years just after the Russian Revolution. He mainly wrote in the Chuvash language, and was keen to develop a proletarian Chuvash literature.
Simbirsk Chuvash teacher's school is the training center for the creative intelligentsia of the Chuvash and other peoples of the Volga region. Center founded educator of Chuvash people I. Y. Yakovlev, October 28, 1868 in Simbirsk, the administrative center of the homonymous province.
Praski Vitti is a Chuvash artist, painter and muralist.
Vladimir Petrukhin is a Russian historian, archaeologist and ethnographer, Doctor of Historical Sciences, chief research fellow of the Medieval Section in the Institute of Slavic Studies in the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor of Higher School of Economics.
Chuvash literature is literature written in the Chuvash language, regardless of the ethnic origin of the authors or the place of publication. This term applies to fictional works, but does not include folklore.
Mikhail Nikolayevich Yukhma, better known by his pen name Mishshi Yukhma, is a Chuvash novelist, poet, and folklorist.
Novye Lapsary is an urban locality under the administrative jurisdiction of Leninsky City District of the town of republican significance of Cheboksary, the Chuvash Republic, Russia. Population: 6,955 (2010 Census); 7,655 (2002 Census); 5,691 (1989 Soviet census).
Sosnovka is an urban locality under the administrative jurisdiction of Moskovsky City District of the town of republican significance of Cheboksary, the Republic of Chuvashia, Russia. Population: 2,242 (2010 Census); 3,053 (2002 Census); 4,876 (1989 Soviet census).
Chuvash nationalism or the Chuvash national movement is the belief that the Chuvash people are a nation. The movement, which originated in the 16th century, has included the evasion of taxes and duties, local armed actions, petitions to the authorities, withdrawal to regions weakly controlled by the state, participation in large-scale anti-government protests, and persistent resistance to mass Christianization.
Victor Nemtsev was a Chuvash painter and member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1967). He was born in the village of Votlany, Komsomol district, Chuvash ASSR, and died in Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic.
Marina Karyagina is a Chuvash poet, novelist and playwright, TV journalist, documentary director, and editor.
Nikolai Zolotnitsky was a Russian Chuvash linguist and one of the founders of national Chuvash scientific linguistics. He was also a comparative Turkologist, ethnographer, teacher, and public figure.
Valerie Tourgay is a Chuvash poet, novelist, translator, and journalist.
Viktor Iosiphovich Rodionov was a Soviet theater actor, musician, and Chuvash radio announcer. He received the title of the People's Artist of the RSFSR on 23 June 1980, and the People's Artist of the Chuvash ASSR (1968). He was a Laureate of the Stanislavsky State Prize of the RSFSR (1971).
Gubernatorial elections in 1991 and 1992 took place in 11 federal subjects of Russia. Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Tatarstan, Kalmykia, Mari El, Mordovia, Sakha and Chuvashia held their first elections in 1991. In Adygea and Kabardino-Balkaria second tours were held after the New Year celebrations. Tuva was the only one region of the Russian Federation to held its first presidential election in 1992, ignoring the year-long moratorium introduced by Russian parliament in late 1991.
Vera Kuzminichna Kuzmina was a Soviet and Russian/Chuvash theatre actress and master of artistic expression (reader). She was decorated as a People's Artist of the USSR in 1980.
