Erzya Chuvassia

Erzya Chuvashia

Ibresinski

This Raion includes villages such as Ts'armun' _{Russ. Malyje Karmaly} the birth place of the celebrated Erzya photographer and linguist Makar Yevsevyevich Yevsevyev, author of an extensive grammar of the Erzya language in 1929.

Total Mordvin population recorded in Tsuvassia 1989 was 19.686 which were registered as Mordvins. Near Ts'armun are also Malinovka and Smytrska which seems to be also Mordvin villages. The larger villages Kublja and Lipovka might have also Mordvin inhabitants.

In 1540´s Alatyr (or Alatir) on the west side of Sura River was mainly inhabited by Ersas.