Cheboksary is the capital city of Chuvashia, Russia, and a port on the Volga River.
Tsivilsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Chuvash Republic, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the republic and borders with Cheboksarsky District in the north and northwest, Mariinsko-Posadsky District in the northeast, Kanashsky District in the south, and with Krasnoarmeysky District in the west. The area of the district is 790.8 square kilometers (305.3 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Tsivilsk. Population: 36,772 (2010 Census); 38,744 (2002 Census); 37,581 (1989 Census). The population of Tsivilsk accounts for 36.7% of the district's total population.
The Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theater (Russian: Чувашский государственный театр оперы и балета, is an opera and ballet theater in Cheboksary, Chuvashia. Initially, it was known as the Chuvash Musical Theater, but was given its present name in 1993.
Society for the study of the native land is an association of ethnographers of Chuvashia to study the local region. The Company distributes scientific data on native land, introduces the population of the republic with the life and culture of the peoples of the country.
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.
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 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 Census).
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.
Andrey Vladimirovich Chibis, is a Russian statesman and politician. He is currently the 5th Governor of Murmansk Oblast, since 27 September 2019. He was the acting governor of Murmansk Oblast in 21 March 2019 before officially sworn into office. He is the Secretary of the Murmansk regional branch of the United Russia party since 15 November 2019.
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.
