Aleksandr Markovich Sharonov (born 18 February 1942) (, , alias Sharononj Sandra (, ) is a

Mordvin Mordvins (also Mordvinians, Mordovians; ; no equivalents in Moksha and Erzya) is an official term used in Russia and the Soviet Union to refer both to Erzyas and Mokshas since 1928. Names While Robert G. Latham had identified ''Mordva'' ...

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Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

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 strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

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Finno-Ugric languages Finno-Ugric () is a traditional linguistic grouping of all languages in the Uralic language family except for the Samoyedic languages. Its once commonly accepted status as a subfamily of Uralic is based on criteria formulated in the 19th centur ...

), 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'' (; , '), also called ''vimoksha'', ''vimukti'', and ''mukti'', is a term in Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sikhism for various forms of emancipation, liberation, '' nirvana'', or release. In its soteriological and eschatologic ...

peoples.

Works

*Устно-поэтическое творчество мордовского народа (1977) *''

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 Un ...

'' an epic poem based on

Mordvin mythology Finnic mythologies are the mythologies of the various Finnic peoples: *Finnish mythology *Estonian mythology *Komi mythology * Mari mythology *Sámi shamanism See also * Baltic mythology * Bear worship * Dorvyzhy * Hungarian mythology * Mastorav ...

and folklore, written in Erzya (1994), translated in Moksha, Russian, and Hungarian languages *Мордовский героический эпос (2001) *На земле Инешкипаза (2006) *Потехония, a science fiction novel (2012) *Эрзя, Меря, Русь в историографии России (2013) *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. Castrén ...

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

References

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