Erzyas

Финно-угорский этнос

Ethnic group

The Erzyas (also Erzyans, Erzya people; Erzya: эрзят, romanized: erzat, Russian: эрзяне, romanized: erzyane) are one of the Mordvin peoples.^[2]

Famous people of Erzya descent

Erzya girls, 1914

Erzya woman holding a shtatol

• Purgaz
• Syreś Boläeń, public figure, poet and translator, half-Erzya
• Stepan Erzia, Russian sculptor
• Nadezhda Kadysheva, Russian singer
• Vasily Chapayev, Bolshevik commander

See also

• Shoksha

References

1. "Официальная публикация итогов Всероссийской переписи населения 2010 года. Т. 1. Численность и размещение населения". Федеральная служба государственной статистики (in Russian). Russian Federal State Statistics Service. 2010.
2. Erza We Are!, Two languages – two nations