The Erzya-Moksha Autonomy (Erzya: Эрзя-Мокшонь Автономной область, Moksha: Эрзя-Мокшень Автономнай область, Russian: Эрзя-Мокшанская Автономная область) was a name of an administrative division of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union approved by Executive Committee of Erzya-Moksha Autonomous oblast before July 16, 1928. The Executive Committee name didn't change till 1930. The conventional name of the Oblast was changed to Mordvin Okrug on July 16, 1928. The administrative centre first was planned to be the oldest Oblast city Temnikov but it was established in Saransk because of the railroad absence in Temnikov.[2]
| Erzya-Moksha Autonomous Oblast | |||||||||
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| Okrug of Russian SFSR | |||||||||
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 Erzya-Moksha Autonomy (Mordvin District) already renamed to Mordvin Autonomous Oblast before territorial changes in 1930[1] | |||||||||
| Capital | Saransk | ||||||||
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| • Created | 16 July 1928 | ||||||||
| • Abolished | 10 January 1930 | ||||||||
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History
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The Erzya-Moksha Autonomy[3] was approved in 1928 as Mordvin Okrug according to personal approval of Josef Stalin, who attended the meeting of the Executive Committee. Deputy president of Supreme Court of Mordovia Vasily Martyshkin quotes Stalin and Timofey Vasilyev. Since Mokshas and Erzyas lived sparsely in many governorates of former Russian Empire Stalin believed it was impossible to establish many autonomous districts. That was Mikifor Surdin, ethnic Moksha who proposed to establish not Erzya-Moksha Autonomy, but a Mordvin okrug. Since most members of the Executive Committee were neither ethnic Erzyas nor Mokshas and did not understand Russian well, Surdin said that using Mordva as ethnonym would be more understandable since they are not supposed to hear about Erzya or Moksha ethnic groups. Stalin liked this variant. The Erzya-Moksha Autonomous oblast lost its ethnic (Rus. national) status and been renamed to Mordvin Okrug. Mikifor Surdin has been being cursed till now for that, in spite of the fact he was executed during the Great Purge.[4][5][6][7] That was the time when the autonomy name changed to Mordvin.[8] Only "ethnonym" Mordvin was allowed in documents for Erzya and Moksha since then.[9][10][11][12]
Okrug was established in the area populated mainly by Erzyas and Mokshas as a part Srednevolzhskaya Oblast on July 16, 1928. On October 20, 1929, the Okrug was included into Srednevolzhsky Krai.
On January 19, 1930, Okrug transformed into the Mordvin Autonomous Oblast,[13] which itself became the Mordovian ASSR in 1934.
Administrative division
editThe Okrug was divided into 23 districts:
See also
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References
edit- ^ Sarov Ethnologist. Pre-Mordvin Administrative Division In Volga Region
- ^ Kozlov 1958, p. 47
- ^ Grekov & Levebedev 1940, p. 47
- ^ Golubchik 2022
- ^ Anoshkin, Nikolay (18 May 2022). "The Exoethnonym's Origin. Page of History". Erzian Mastor [Erzialand]. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
- ^ *"Republic Of Mordovia". vseruss.com. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
- ^ "Votians, Besermyans and Other Peoples Of Russia That Seem To Be Never Existed but They Do". Kulturologia.ru. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
- ^ Martyshkin 2014
- ^ Vasilyev 2007
- ^ "Votians, Besermyans and Other Peoples Of Russia That Seem To Be Never Existed but They Do". Kulturologia.ru. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
- ^ Golubchik 2022
- ^ Anoshkin, Nikolay (18 May 2022). "The Exoethnonym's Origin. Page of History". Erzian Mastor [Erzialand]. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
- ^ CITEREFBabushkin2006
Sources
edit- Babushkin, Andrey (2006). "Russian Means International Socialist" (PDF). Yabloko (2): 22.
- Golubchik, Vladislav (10 January 2022). "Thank you, comrade Stalin for our Mordvin Autonomy". Stolitsa S [Capital S]. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
- Grekov, B.D.; Levebedev, V.I., eds. (1940), Documents and Materials on History of Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (in Russian), vol. 1, Mordovian Research Institute of Language, Literature, History and Economics, p. 182
- Kozlov, V.I. (1958). "Mordva Resettlement". Soviet Ethnography (in Russian) (2).
- Martyshkin, N.V (2014-10-02), Mordvin Charismatic Person, Timofey Vasilyev. Patriot, Lawyer Enlighter. First International Lawyer to Gredat Britain (in Russian), Supreme Court of Mordovian Republic Press Centre[permanent dead link]
- Vasilyev, Timofey (2007). Mordovia (PDF) (in Russian). Saransk: Mordovian Research Institute of Language, Literature, History and Economics.
- Republic of Mordovia Archived 2017-02-11 at the Wayback Machine
- 80 years anniversary of the Erzya-Moksha Autonomy