Bolshiye Toktashi (; ; ) is a

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) in

Alikovsky District Alikovsky District (; , ''Elĕk rayonĕ'') is an administrativeLaw #28 and municipalLaw #37 district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of the Chuvash Republic, twenty-one in the Chuvash Republic, Russia. It is located in the northwestern ...

of the

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, located southwest of the district's

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of Alikovo.Чувашская энциклопедия
/ref> The majority of the village population is Chuvash. Village facilities include a club, a library, a first-aid post, a shop, and Ilya Toktash Literature Museum. The Khirlep River flows in the vicinity of the village. The climate in the village is moderately continental, with long cold winters and warm summers. Average January temperature is ; average July temperature—. The absolute minimum recorded in the village is , and the absolute maximum—. Annual precipitation is up to .

Etymology

The Chuvash word ''măn'' means 'big', while ''Toktash'' is a proper name.

Notable people

* Anatoly Serep, Chuvash writer * Arkady Malov, Chuvash writer, translator * Ille Toktash, Chuvash writer, poet, translator, folklorist * Gerasim Pileš, Chuvash writer, grafic artist, playwright, sculptor * Nikolai Ivanov, Chuvash artist

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