Category
page 1Mordvin people
Natalia Vodianova
Russian model
Mordvins
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.

Vasily Shukshin
Soviet actor, writer, screenwriter and film director (1929-1974)
Patriarch Nikon of Moscow
8th Patriarch of Moscow (1652–1666)
Alexander Ovechkin
Russian ice hockey player

Olga Kaniskina
Russian race walker

Vasily Klyuchevsky
Russian historian (1841–1911)
Yuriy Borzakovskiy
Athletics (sport) competitor

Svetlana Khorkina
Russian artistic gymnast
Alexey Maresyev
Soviet aviator (1916–2001)
Stepan Erzya
Erzya Mordvin sculptor (1876-1959)
Nadezhda Kadysheva
Russian singer
Maksim Purkayev
Soviet general (1894–1953)
Nikolay Merkushkin
Russian politician (born 1951)
Yevgeny Chetvergov
erzya writer, journalist, editor of «Erzya Land» newspaper (1995-2015)
Oleg Maskaev
Russian-American boxer
Vladimir Romashkin
Erzya folklorist, researcher, musician and documentary filmmaker. He also created the musical group Toorama. (1951–2002)
Mikhail Devyatayev
Hero of the Soviet Union (1917–2002)
Tatyana Ovechkina
Russian basketball player
Alena Arzamasskaia
Russian military rebel
Nikolay Antoshkin
Russian Air Force colonel general and statesman (1942–2021)
Yevgeny Chichvarkin
Russian entrepreneur
Aleksandr Sharonov
Russian historian (born 1942)
Mariya Shukshina
Russian actress
Maxim Suraykin
Russian politician
Nikolay Mordvinov
Russian politician (1754-1845)
Fyodor Vidyayev
Soviet submarine commander (1912-1943)
Mordvin native religion
modern revival of the ethnic religion of the Mordvins
Qaratay
Qaratays, also known as Karatais, Karatays (Russian: Каратаи, Karatay; Tatar: Каратайлар, Qarataylar; Moksha: каратайхть, karatajiť), are a Mordvinian ethnic group in Kamsko-Ustyinsky District, Tatarstan around the village of Mordovsky Karatay. They speak a variety of the Tatar language complemented by Moksha words, which is sometimes considered as a Qaratay dialect of the Kazan Tatar language. They number about 100.
Ilya Devin
Sovit Mordvin writer (1922-1998)
Sergey Darkin
Russian politician