Mokshane

The number of Mokshans on the territory of the Russian Federation for the first time cites the 1926 census and it is 392.4 thousand ^[7] . According to the 2010 All-Russian Population Census, the number of moksha was 4,767 people (ie 0.6% of the counted Mordovian population census) ^[8]

Androphages , which are identified with the tribes of the Gorodets culture , in particular with the ancestors of the Mokshans, were first mentioned by Herodotus ^{[9] [10]} . He also describes the Scythian-Persian war of 516-512 BC. e. The Sarmatians who ousted the Scythians came as conquerors and subjugated part of the Moksha clans, however, due to their small numbers, they could not spread their power far ^{[11] [12]} . According to A. Sharonov , Moksha are of Iranian origin ^[13] .

In the 9th century, the Burtass Principality became a vassal of the Khazar Khaganate . ^[14] In 965, according to Ibn-Haukal , Prince Svyatoslav I struck the Khazars allies, took Sarkel , Bulgar and went to Semender ^[15] . Two years later, he took Itil ^[16] . By the beginning of the X century, the king of the Volga Bulgaria Almush concentrated in his hands the collection and payment of Khazar tribute. Having accepted Islam , he enlisted the support of the Baghdad caliph Muktadir and founded a trading post at the mouth of the Oka ^[17] . In this regard, in 985, Prince Vladimir of Kiev took a campaign on the Bulgar. In 1006, a trade agreement was concluded between Prince Vladimir and Tsar Almush, and an “eternal peace” was established on the Volga, which lasted 80 years ^[18] . In 1120, the struggle for the mouth of the Oka River and the Erzyan fortress Obran osh was resumed ^[19] . In 1220, Vladimir Yuri undertook a campaign against Oschel and demanded a reduction in the influence of the Bulgars on Purgasova Rus , with which they were allied. In 1221, Obran Osh was burned by the princes of Vladimir, and Nizhny Novgorod was founded downstream. Purgas and Pures were in a state of constant war, while Purgas counted on the support of the Bulgarian emir, while Pures was the warrior of Prince Yuri ^[20] . In 1229, the Bulgars went on a campaign against Tsar Puresh, however, having learned about the plunder of Purgasov Rus by the Vladimir princes, they turned back. In 1230, Purgas again besieged Nizhny Novgorod, but was recaptured, and after that the son of Puresh Atyamas, together with the Polovtsy, undertook a devastating expedition to Purgasova Rus ^[21] .

According to the testimonies of Rashid al-Din , on September 4, 1236, the sons of Jochi Batu , Horde and Berke , the son of Ugedei Khan Kadan , the grandson of Chagatai Buri and the son of Genghis Khan Kulkan declared war on the Moksha, Burtases and Erza , each of them standing at the head of the Tumen . The war ended on August 23, 1237, with the defeat of the Moksha in the battle of the Black Forest near the border with the Ryazan principality ^{[22] [23]} . A military alliance was concluded between the Moksha and the Mongols, according to which King Puresh, at the head of his army as an ally and vassal, was to join the Mongols in their campaign to the west.

At the beginning of 1241, the Mongol army crossed the Carpathians and invaded Poland . Roger Bacon in his work Opus majus ^[24] mentions that the Mokshans were at the forefront of the Mongolian army and participated in the capture of Lublin and Zavikhost . According to Benedict Polyak , the Moksha army suffered significant losses during the capture of the Sandomierz fortress in February and Krakow in March of the same year.

According to the testimony of Guillaume de Rubruk and Roger Bacon , the Mokshans secretly negotiated with the Germans and Bohemians and waited for an opportunity to go over to their side, as they hoped to get rid of the alliance imposed on them with Batu ^[25] .

Presumably on April 8, Puresh secretly met with Henry the Pious and announced the morning performance of the Mongols and his intention to go over to the side of the Silesians ^[26] . On the same day, Puresh told Subedai that his warriors were tired and could not perform in the morning. Subaedey found out about the conspiracy and suggested that Puresh's army surrender their weapons and rest, but at night, on his orders, Puresh himself and some of his troops, sleeping, were killed, the rest fled ^[27] .

• Tyusteni - the legendary cultural hero and commander, the last king of Mokshan, who headed the united Mokshan state
• Selik - national hero, founder of Selix ^[28]
• Puresh (1190? —1241) - the king, commander, took part in the Western campaign for the salvation of his people ^[29]
• Mokshy (1300s) - kilichy of the Grand Duke of Moscow Dmitry Donskoy
• Narmatka (1210? —1242) - Moksha Queen, warrior, heroine of the war with the Mongols
• Atyamas (? —1242) - the son of Tsar Puresh, commander, member of the Western campaign
• Cherapkin, Joseph Grigorievich (1884-1935) - linguist, scientist, repressed in 1935
• Dorofeev, Zakhar Fedorovich (1890-1952) - founder of the new Moksha literature, poet, participant in the First World War
• Durnov, Fyodor Savvatevich (1920-1944) - poet
• Bezborodov, Mikhail Ilyich (1907-1935) - poet, translator
• Kizhevatov, Andrei Mitrofanovich (1907-1941) - defender of the Brest Fortress, Hero of the Soviet Union (rank assigned posthumously)
• Devyatayev, Mikhail Petrovich (1917-2002) - military pilot, hero of the Great Patriotic War, famous for his escape from the concentration camp on the island of Usedom in a plane hijacked by him
• Alexey Mokshoni (1898-1971) - Secretary of the Consular Section of the USSR Embassy in Austria, Professor at the Department of Political Economy of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute. V. I. Lenin
• Karasev, Alexey Ivanovich (1910-1980) - writer
• Shukshin, Vasily Makarovich (1929-1974) - Soviet actor, screenwriter, writer ^[30]
• Feoktistov, Alexander Pavlovich (1928-2004) - professor, Finno-Ugrologist
• Elmeev, Vasily Yakovlevich (1928–2010) - Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Economics, Professor of the Department of Sociology, St. Petersburg State University , specialist in the field of social philosophy, methodology of science, sociology and economics of science, made a significant contribution to the creation of a political economy theory of science
• Pudin, Alexander Ivanovich - writer, playwright, poet
• Maskaev Oleg Alexandrovich - professional boxer
• Kosheleva, Nina Vasilievna - composer, Laureate of the D. D. Shostakovich Prize of the Union of Composers of Russia
• Pinyasov, Grigory Ilyich - writer, playwright
• Chekashkin, Andrei Yakovlevich (1913—?) - writer, poet
• Chigodaikin, Ivan Vasilievich - front-line poet, writer, member of the Union of Writers of the USSR
• Merkushkin, Nikolai Ivanovich - Governor of the Samara Region (2012-2017), Presidential Representative to the World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples
• Shindyaykin, Pavel Semenovich - artist, director of the Nizhny Novgorod Art College, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation
• Kirdyapkin, Sergey Alexandrovich (born in 1980) - Russian athlete (race walking), Olympic champion of the XXX Olympic Games 2012 in London (deprived of the title due to doping), two-time world champion (2005 and 2009) at a distance of 50 km, honored master of sports of Russia
• Vandyshev, Sergey Ivanovich - Soviet attack pilot, Guard Major, Hero of the Russian Federation (1994)
• Suraikin, Maxim Alexandrovich (b.1978) - Russian politician

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• Semenkin, Gennady Ivanovich (1935-2005) (1974-1990) - First Secretary of the Biysk District Committee of the CPSU (1991-2000), Head of the Biysk District Administration of the Altai Territory, Hero of Socialist Labor, Honorary Citizen of the Biysk Region
• Viard, Vasily Ivanovich (1907-1971) - writer
• Nikolai Mordvinov (1754-1845) - Count, Russian Admiral
• Metropolitan Anthony (Vadkovsky) (1846-1912) - Bishop of Vyborg and Finland, Representative of the Russian Church in England, Doctor of Theology and Rights, University of Oxford and Cambridge

• Kevin Alan Brook. The Jews of Khazaria. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7425-4981-4

• Gorodets archaeological culture
• Dyakovo archaeological culture
• Mokshan language
• Mokshan music

• British Moksha Encyclopedia
• Finno-Ugric peoples
• The Republic of Mordovia. Historical and Ethnographic Site
• History of the Khazar Khaganate
• Rashid ad-Din “Jami at-tavarikh”, A story about the wars waged by the princes and the Mongol army in the Kipchak steppe, Bulgar, Russia, Moksha, Alania, Majar, Bular and Bashgird, and their conquest of those areas
• Moksha folklore
• Radio Vaigal
• Republic of Mordovia news
• Mokshan portal. Famous Moksha people. Music and video in Moksha
• Finno-Ugric news site
• Moksha-English and English-Moksha dictionary on-line
• Moksha forum
• Moksha youth

• Moksha (literary, artistic and socio-political magazine)
• Mokshen true [1]
• Yashter tashtenya (children's magazine)