domingo, 5 de abril de 2009

Republic of Mordovia

Republic of Mordovia

(Created by Sergey P., Svetlana M. and Anya B. Form 11. Tarkhanovo Secondary School)



Mordovia was organized on the 10th of January, 1930, as an independent district and transformed in autonomous republic on the 20th of December, 1934. Since 1991 it is called the Mordovian Soviet Republic, since 1993 – the Republic of Mordovia. Now-a-days it is the member of Volgo-Vyatsky economic district and Privolzhsky Federal Region.
The highest public servant in Mordovia is the Head of the Republic; the highest legislative unit is the State Assembly of the Republic.
Republic of Mordovia is situated in the east of Eastern European plain and covers the territory of 26, 2 thousands square kilometers. It spreads from the Ryazan country in the west to the Chuvash lands in the east, and from Nizhny Novgorod Region in the north to the Ulyanovsk and Penza country in the south.
Since ancient times this area between the Volga, Oka, Sura and Moksha rivers has been inhabited by the industrious, warm-hearted Mordovian people whose language belongs to the Finno-Ugric family. The first mention of the Mordovians in written sources relates to the 6th century. The Mordovians are divided into main two linguistic groups – the Mordva-erzya and Mordva-moksha, each with its own literary language.

The population of Mordovia (by the data of the 1st of June, 2004) is 876,100 people and 432,100 of inhabitants are active. The state languages are Mordovian (moksha, erzya) and Russian, and the third part of people speaks only Mordovian. Predominate religion in republic is the Orthodox Christianity.
The republic is the industrial and agricultural region and keeps the steady positions in Russia and in international market by producing the power transistorized techniques, electronics, excavators, rubber-elastic techniques, medical preparations, light sources, railway carriages and half-carriages. The large Mordovian forests are the raw base for wood manufacturing industry. Agricultural sector in Mordovia is specialized on producing of corn, potatoes, sugar beet, vegetables, and also in the main kinds of stock-breeding.
Mordovian nature is various; there are deep thick forests, partially wooded steppe, marshes and sands, rivers and lakes, chalk mountains and black earths. The natural plant cover is mostly needle and broad deciduous forests. More than a thousand kinds of plants is counted in Mordovian flora. Also here you can find more than 200 kinds of birds and near 60 kinds of mammals.
Mordovia is the real ecologically clean corner of the Earth, there are a lot of beautiful and picturesque places. It is rich in green meadows boundless farm fields; there are clear, placid streams and lakes, thick oak woods alive with the chatter of birds and dotted with sunny clearings, groves and orchards that are in white bloom in spring. Children come here to rest with great pleasure. In the republic there are a great number of different sanitary camps, medicinal sanitary centers and sanatoriums.

The republic is very famous by its sportsmen, especially in such kinds of sport as sport walk, light athletics, Greek-roman wrestling, power-lifting, speedway. In 2004 the wrestler Aleksey Mishin firstly became the golden prizewinner of the Olympic Games in Athens. Now-a-days more than 500 kids are seriously trained in sport walk, and the group of the strongest fast runners of the Olympic training center obtained the great superiority between all the rivals in last 5 years. Denis Nizhegorodov’s silver medal and Aleksey Voevodin’s bronze medal that were brought from Athens in 2004 became the best evidence of good training and exposure of Mordovian walkers.
The great specialty of Mordovia is the fact that the population here includes some nationalities that have their own cultural roots, their specific cultural past and present and their individual way of evolution. But their combined living in peace and good neighbourhood on the common territory naturally affected on mutual enrichment of their cultural traditions that let them create the united cultural background for the whole republic.
Mordovia has well-developed infrastructure of cultural and artistic establishments, in which are the great number of theatrical and concert foundings, museums, libraries, palaces of culture, leisure-centers, musical schools, art houses and art-schools. The broad net of leisure-cultural centers not only helps in esthetic education of children and teenagers but also cares of training the future professionals. Thanks to the high professional and spiritual potentiality of our creative intelligent level the cultural life of Mordovian people is very rich and various. Saving and increasing of cultural heritage is the main task for today because of having the great national importance for Mordovian land.

Dozens of thousands of men and women with a specialized secondary or higher education are now employed in the republic’s economy.
One in every 5 Mordovians is studying. There are more than 1200 general education schools with a teaching stuff of about 14,000.
The State University in Saransk has a student body of more than 19,000. We also have a teachers’ training college. 30 trade and professional schools train skilled workers, teachers and medical nurses.
Our educational establishment and research institutes have 16 Doctors of Science degrees and more than 300 with candidate Degrees.
Mordovia is noted for its singers and dancers, painters and sculptors.
According to the data of the leading Russian rating agency “Expert RA”, on the degree of political risk Mordovia occupies the 3rd place in the Russian Federation, and according to criminal situation evaluation it gets into the ten of the most favourable regions of Russia. According to the data of Rating Centre AK&M, presently our Republic occupies the 21st place in the rating of solvency of the Russian Federation constituent entities.

lunes, 10 de diciembre de 2007

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sábado, 8 de diciembre de 2007

Saransk, the Capital of Mordovia.



Saransk is the capital of Republic of Mordovia. Saransk is a city of rich biography. It appeared in 1641 as a military stronghold on the boarder of the Russian state. At the beginning of the 20th century it was a backward township with the population less than 14.000 people. There were 14 churches and two cathedrals in old Saransk. As for educational establishments there were only 2 schools and a teachers’ seminary. Saransk was a town of narrow streets with kerosene lamps, single-storeyed houses and small workshops.



Now Saransk looks quiet different from what it looked before. From a small provincial town Saransk has developed into a large industrial and cultural center of Republic of Mordovia and Russian Federation. It is a big growing town with high buildings, treelined streets and green parks, a town that becomes more beautiful from day to day.

There are more than 60 large and medium-size enterprises in Saransk. A greater part of the production output comprises electric lamps, self-disloading lorries, cables, excavators, antibiotics, semi-conductor and rubber commodities, confectionary and other goods. Saransk is famous for well-known enterprises: “Lisma”, “Electric-Rectifier plant”, “Saransk Cables”, “Biochemist” and “Mordovspirt”.


Saransk is home to Scientific Research Institutes, Mordovian N.P. Ogariov State University, Pedagogical M.E. Evsevyev State Institute, Economic Cooperation Institute. There are many schools and technical schools.



Saransk, as the center of cultural life of the republic, holds museums, libraries, theatres, and each of these tamples of arts possesses its own individual images, its history and traditions. Taken together they all make a memorable portrait of Saransk.

martes, 27 de noviembre de 2007

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martes, 20 de noviembre de 2007

From Republic of Mordovia



Self-portrait. Self-portrait (Anguish)1908 .

Stepan Erzia.

( Svetlana M. and Anna B. Grade 10. Tarkhanovo Secondary School. Republic of Mordovia )


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(1)Michelangelo.1942. (2)Alexander Nevsky.1931 (3)Beethoven.1929. (4)Head of a Spanish Woman.

Stepan Dmitrievich Nefedov (the real surname of the sculptor is those) – was born in Mordovia. And so he took a pseudonym under the name of one of ethnic groups. He studied in Alatyr, Kazan and Moscow. He lived for 9 years in Italy and France. He was exerted strong influence on by O. Roden’s creativity. In the first years of the Soviet authority he participated in realization of the plan of Monumental Propagation. Everything that he had reached, it was obliged to the natural talent, enormous work capacity and selfless, almost fanatical, fidelities to favorite business.

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(5) Portrait of an Old Mordovian. 1944. (6) Portrait of Mordovian Woman.1917. (7) Argentinean Woman. 1940. (8) Argentinean.1937.

Since 1926 till 1950 Erzia had been living and working in Argentina. He created many sculptures from wood. In South America his favorite materials were algarroba and quebracho - local kinds of a tree. His works were marvelous beauty. The master worked, using natural internal figure of a wood, its natural forms.


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(9-10) Moses.1932. (11) Portrait of Kisel-Zagoryanskaya. (1918). (12) Woman from Argentina.(1934)

Erzia aspired to romantic heroization of the person’s image. His sculptures are those: "Tolstoy", "Beethoven", «Argentinean», «Moskvichka», "Self-portrait", "Mordovian Girl" and others. Roden’s influence is felt in unusual on a plot and very emotional on perception works such as "Despair" and "Pleasure". But, perhaps, his most well-known sculpture is three-meter bible «Moses», exhibited in the Mordovian Republican Museum of Fine Arts in Saransk. Here there are also many other things of his works which he had bequeathed in gift to the Mordovian people. Many, but not all. When the sculptor returned home in 1950, he could not bring with himself everything that he had created for 24 years in South America.

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