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Chuvash erythrocytosis or Chuvash polycythemia is an autosomal recessive form of erythrocytosis endemic in patients from the Chuvash Republic in Russia. Chuvash erythrocytosis is associated with homozygosity for a C598T mutation in the von Hippel–Lindau gene ( VHL ), which is needed for the destruction of hypoxia-inducible factors in the ...
Kamaj (16th century) - Chuvash mărsa at the service of Khan of Kazan who defected to the Russian side. Aransajpik (17th century) - Chuvash noble at Russian service who was granted 300 desiatinas of land around Şĕrpü . Daniil Elmen (1885–1932) - Chuvash statesman, first leader of Chuvash autonomy in Soviet Russia.
The Chuvash people [a] (Chuvash: чӑвашсем, romanized: çăvaşsem, pronounced [tɕəˈʋaʃsem]; Russian: чуваши, romanized: čuvaši, pronounced [tɕʊˈvaʂɨ]) are a Turkic ethnic group, a branch of the Oğurs, inhabiting an area stretching from the Idel-Ural region to Siberia.
In December 1920, Śeśpĕl was arrested, accused of setting fire to the Chuvash Justice Department by members of the Chuvash Congress who disagreed with his views that communists should not live in luxury. After 3 months of incarceration, and the campaigning of his comrades to free him, Śeśpĕl was released on 7 February 1921.
On August 10, 1933, the Council of people's Commissars of the Chuvash ASSR reorganized the Chuvash comprehensive research Institute into two institutions: the Chuvash research Institute of industry (which existed until 1936) and the Chuvash research Institute of social and cultural construction.
Most of the Chuvash who stayed in the area became Orthodox Christians, but some remained pagan. A number of Russian noble families received large estates in the Chuvash lands as reward for their services to the Tsar. The formerly independent landowning Chuvash peasants became serfs to rich Russian landowners. Russian became the official language.
The Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic [a] was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union. It occupied about 18,000 square kilometres (6,900 square miles) along the east bank of the Volga River , about 60 kilometres (37 miles) west of the river's confluence with the Kama River and some 700 kilometres (430 miles ...
Tsivilsk The Virgin of Tikhvin Monastery Cathedral of Our Lady of Tikhvin, 2011. Tsivilsk, also rendered Tzivilsk or Civilsk, [a] is a town and the administrative center of Tsivilsky District of the Chuvash Republic, Russia, located 37 kilometers (23 mi) from the republic's capital city of Cheboksary, at the crossroads of the highways from Nizhny Novgorod to Kazan and from Tsivilsk to Ulyanovsk.