Mordovia, officially the Republic of Mordovia, is a republic of Russia, situated in Eastern Europe. Its capital is the city of Saransk. As of the 2010 Census, the population of the republic was 834,755. Ethnic Russians (53.1%) and Mordvins (39.8%) account for the majority of the population.
Saransk is the capital city of Mordovia, Russia, as well as its financial and economic centre. It is located in the Volga basin at the confluence of the Saranka and Insar Rivers, about 630 kilometers (390 mi) east of Moscow. Saransk was one of the host cities of the official tournament of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Mordvins is an official term used in the Russian Federation to refer both to Erzyas and Mokshas since 1928.
Moksha is a Mordvinic language of the Uralic family, with around 130,000 native speakers in 2010. Moksha is the majority language in the western part of Mordovia. Its closest relative is the Erzya language, with which it is not mutually intelligible. Moksha is also possibly closely related to the extinct Meshcherian and Muromian languages.
The Mordvinic languages, also known as the Mordvin, Mordovian or Mordvinian languages , are a subgroup of the Uralic languages, comprising the closely related Erzya language and Moksha language, both spoken in Mordovia.
The House of Engalychev, also transliterated Yengalychev, Engalytscheff and Jengalitschev, is a princely family recognized by the Russian empire. Its origin is from medieval independent rulers of the Finnic Mordovians, or tatarized Mordovians, titled "mourzas" (tatar) and mentioned as of Mordvin origin.
Stepan Dmitrievich Erzia (Nefyodov) (Russian: Степа́н Дми́триевич Э́рьзя (Нефёдов); November 8 [O.S. October 27] 1876 – 24 November 1959), also known as Stefan Erzia, was an Erzya Mordvin sculptor who lived in Russia and Argentina. Erzya chose his pseudonym after the native ethnic group.
The Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union. It is now known as the Republic of Mordovia, a federal subject of Russia.
The flag of Mordovia, in the Russian Federation, is a horizontal tricolour of red, white and blue. It is charged with a brown-red sun emblem in the center of the white strip. The emblem is divide into four parts, symbolizing the four Mordvin tribes. Its proportions are 1:2:1.
The puvama is a type of bagpipe of the Mordvin people of Mordovia, in the eastern part of the East European Plain of Russia.
Erzyan neopaganism or Erzyan native religion, is the modern revival of the ethnic religion of the Erzya Mordvins, peoples of Volga Finnic ethnic stock dwelling in the republic of Mordovia within Russia, or in bordering lands of Russia. The name of the originating god according to the Erzya tradition is Ineshkipaz.
Vladimir Ivanovich Romashkin or Yovlan Olo was an Erzya Mordvin folklorist, researcher, musician and documentary filmmaker who is considered a significant figure in the cultural revival of the Erzya, Moksha, Shoksha, and Qaratay people. He also created the musical group Toorama.
Vladimir Dmitriyevich Volkov, is a Russian politician. He served as the acting Head of the Republic of Mordovia from 14 May 2012 until his resignation on 18 November 2020.
The national emblem of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted in 1937 by the government of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The emblem is identical to the emblem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
The flag of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted in 1954 by the government of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The flag is identical to the flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, but with "Mordovian ASSR" in Russian, Erzya and Moksha.
Bolshiye Mordovskiye Poshaty is a rural locality, administrative centre of Bolshemordovsko-poshatskoye rural Locality of Yelnikovsky District, Mordovia, Russia.
Podlyasovo is a rural locality, in Anayevskaya rural Locality of Zubovo-Polyansky District, Mordovia, Russia.
Federal Governmental Institution — penal colony No. 1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Republic of Mordovia, also known as the Mordovian Zone is a Russian prison located in the settlement of Sosnovka in Mordovia. It is one of the seven maximum-security supermax prisons operated by the Federal Penitentiary Service for convicts sentenced to life imprisonment in Russia. Both life prisoners and prisoners sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment serve their sentences in the Mordovian Zone.
Mordvins is an obsolete official term for the Erzyas and Mokshas as a single ethnic group in Russian Federation since 1928.
The Erzya-Moksha Autonomy Erzya: Эрзя-Мокшонь Автономной область, Moksha: Эрзя-Мокшень Автономнай область, Russian: Эрзя-Мокшанская Автономная область was a name of an administrative division of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union approved by Executive Committee of Erzya-Moksha Autonomous oblast before July 16, 1928. The Executive Committee name didn't change till 1930. The conventional name of the Oblast was changed to Mordvin Okrug on July 16, 1928. The administrative centre first was planned to be the oldest Oblast city Temnikov but it was established in Saransk because of the railroad absence in Temnikov.
Mordvin musician with a puvama
Mordovian band OYME
