The Erzyas (also ''Erzyans'', ''Erzya people''; , ) are one of the
Mordvin peoples.
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Famous people of Erzya descent
* Purgaz
* Syreś Boläeń, public figure, poet and translator, half-Erzya
* Stepan Erzia, Russian sculptor
* Nadezhda Kadysheva, 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, ...
commander
See also
* Shoksha
References
{{Finno-Ugric peoples
Volga Finns
Paganism in Europe
Lutheranism in Russia
Indigenous peoples of Europe
Ethnic groups in Russia