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Mordvin

Member of a Finnish people inhabiting the middle Volga Valley in western Asia. They are agriculturalists, known to have lived in the region since the 1st century AD. Although nominally Christian, their faith also includes non-Christian divinities. There are 1 million speakers of Mordvin scattered throughout western Russia, about one-third of whom live in the Mordvinian republic. Mordvin is a Finno-Ugric language belonging to the Uralic family.
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Wayne Dowler's book examines the late imperial debate about Russification as it centered on the problem of primary education for non-Russian easterners, in particular the Mar, Mordvins, Chuvash, Udmurts, Tatars, Bashkirs, Kalmyks, and K azakhs of the Kazan school district, one of the largest and most ethnically diverse of the Russian "East.
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