My native land

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GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION Chuvashiya is located on the Volga. More than 1.3

GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION

Chuvashiya is located on the Volga. More than 1.3 million

people live here. There are 21 districts, 9 cities. Over 450 thousand people live in the capital of the republic - Cheboksary.
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POPULATION Chuvashes – the fourth big nationalities (1.8 people) of Russia.

POPULATION

Chuvashes – the fourth big nationalities (1.8 people) of Russia. The

majority of the population are Chuvashes (about 68 %) and Russian (about 27 %).
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OUR HISTORY Our ancestors lived in the Central Asia and then

OUR HISTORY

Our ancestors lived in the Central Asia and then

came to the Volga.
Soon a mongolo-tatar army of khan Batyj has won Volzhskaya Bulgaria.
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TOGETHER FOREVER Only 300 years later they have been released by

TOGETHER FOREVER

Only 300 years later they have been released by Russian

tsar Ivan Groznyi and became a part of Russian state.
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CRAFTS Chuvashes were engaged in woodcarving , pottery, embroidery. The embroidery

CRAFTS

Chuvashes were engaged in woodcarving , pottery, embroidery. The embroidery was

the most mass kind of creativity: each woman could do it very well.
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OUR GUESTS Catherine II, Pavel I, well-known writers and poets –

OUR GUESTS

Catherine II, Pavel I, well-known writers and poets – A.Pushkin,

L.Tolstoy, and others visited our land.
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FAMOUS PEOPLE The Chuvash land is rich with well-known people who

FAMOUS PEOPLE

The Chuvash land is rich with well-known people who They

are: scientist N.Bichurin, the ship builder academician A.Krylov, the language researcher N.Ashmarin, the educator I.Jakovlev, poets K.Ivanov and P.Huzangaj, the hero of the civil war V.Chapaev, cosmonaut-3 A.Nikolaev, ballerina N.Pavlova and many others.