:''This is a Mordvin name; the given name is Sandra.'' Aleksandr Markovich Sharonov (born 18 February 1942) (russian: Алекса́ндр Ма́ркович Шаро́нов, , alias Sharononj Sandra (

Erzya language The Erzya language (, , ), also Erzian or historically Arisa, is spoken by approximately 300,000 people in the northern, eastern and north-western parts of the Republic of Mordovia and adjacent regions of Nizhny Novgorod, Chuvashia, Penza, Sam ...

: Шарононь Сандра, ''Šaronoń Sandra'', ) is a

Mordvin The Mordvins (also Unified Mordvin people, Mordvinians, Mordovians; russian: мордва, Mordva, Mordvins (no equivalents in Moksha and Erzya)) is an obsolete but official term used in the Russian Federation to refer both to Erzyas and Moks ...

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Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

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Finno-Ugric languages Finno-Ugric ( or ; ''Fenno-Ugric'') or Finno-Ugrian (''Fenno-Ugrian''), is a traditional grouping of all languages in the Uralic language family except the Samoyedic languages. Its formerly commonly accepted status as a subfamily of Uralic is ...

), folklorist, poet and prose writer."Шаронов Александр Маркович"
(retrieved January 2, 2015) His research and social interests include history, mythology and folklore of Erzya and

Moksha ''Moksha'' (; sa, मोक्ष, '), also called ''vimoksha'', ''vimukti'' and ''mukti'', is a term in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism for various forms of emancipation, enlightenment, liberation, and release. In its soteriologic ...

peoples.

Works

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Mastorava ''Mastorava'' () is an Erzya epic poem compiled based on Erzya mythology and folklore by Aleksandr Sharonov, published in 1994 in the Erzya language, with a Moksha language version announced. The poem consists of five parts entitled "The Unive ...

'' an epic poem based on Mordvin mythology and folklore, written in Erzya (1994), translated in Moksha, Russian, and Hungarian languages *Устно-поэтическое творчество мордовского народа (1977) *На земле Инешкипаза (2006) *Мордовский героический эпос (2001) *Эрзя, Меря, Русь в историографии России (2013) *Потехония, a science fiction novel (2012) *Планета Эра, poetry and prose (2014)

Recognition

*1997:

Matthias Castrén Matthias Alexander Castrén (2 December 1813 – 7 May 1852) was a Finnish Swedish ethnologist and philologist who was a pioneer in the study of the Uralic languages. He was an educator, author and linguist at the University of Helsinki. Castré ...

Society Literary Prize, Finland *1996: Mordovia State Prize, Russia

References

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