The Erzyas (also ''Erzyans'', ''Erzya people''; , ) are one of the

Mordvin people 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'' as ...

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Famous people of Erzya descent

Purgaz Purgaz or Inäzor Purgaz (, , ''Purgas'') was an Erzän leader in the first half of the 13th century. He was a Grand Duke (''inäzor'') of the Erzän Principality of Purgaz. Being an ally of Volga Bulgaria, he resisted easterly Slavic expansi ...

Syreś Boläeń Syreś Boläeń (born ''Alexander Grigorievich Bolkin)'' is a Ukrainian public figure, poet, translator, co-founder of the Free Idel Ural Movement and a leader of the Erzya National Movement, having been given the title of (a title for Erzya ...

, public figure, poet and translator, half-Erzya *

Stepan Erzia Stepan Dmitrievich Erzia (Nefyodov) (; – 24 November 1959), also known as Stefan Erzia, was an Erzya sculptor who lived in Russia and Argentina. Erzya chose his pseudonym after the native ethnic group. Biography He was born October 27, 187 ...

, Russian sculptor *

Nadezhda Kadysheva Nadezhda Nikitichna Kadysheva (, ; born 1 June 1959) is a Russian folk-pop singer of Erzyan heritage, she is the soloist of the band Zolotoe Koltso. She is a Honorary Citizen of Bugulma, People's Artist of Russia (1999), People's Artist of Mord ...

, Russian singer *

Vasily Chapayev Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev (; 5 September 1919) was a Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War. Biography Chapayev was born into a poor peasant family in a village called , now part of Cheboksary. During World War I ...

Bolshevik The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical Faction (political), faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, ...

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Famous people of Erzya descent

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