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Mari El, [a] officially the Mari El Republic, [b] is a republic of Russia. It is in the European region of the country, along the northern bank of the Volga River, and administratively part of the Volga Federal District. The republic has a population of 696,459 (2010 Census). [13] Yoshkar-Ola is the capital and largest city.
The Mari (/ ˈ m ɑːr i / MAR-ee), [a] also formerly known as the Cheremis or Cheremisses, [b] [7] [8] are a Finno-Ugric people in Eastern Europe, who have traditionally lived along the Volga and Kama rivers in Russia. [7] They live mostly in the Mari El republic, with significant minorities in Bashkortostan, Perm Krai, Tatarstan and Udmurtia. [7]
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The Eastern Mari are a subgroup of the Mari people, a Volga Finnic ethnic group of Russia. Eastern Mari comprise those Mari living outside of the Mari El Republic, east of the Vyatka River in the Kama and Ural regions. [1] They are concentrated in Bashkortostan, particularly in the Mishkinsky District, Birsky District, and in Neftekamsk.
The Mari Autonomous Oblast was created on November 4, 1920, as a region of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. In 1936 it was re-established as the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , which dissolved in 1990, then developing into the modern Mari El Republic within Russian Federation .
The Head of the Mari El Republic, formerly knownm as the President of Mari El Republic, is the highest executive position in Mari El, a federal subject of Russia.. The first president of Mari El was Vladislav Zotin when the position was created on 24 December 1991, two days before dissolution of the Soviet Union, replacing the First Secretary of the Mari Communist Party, the equivalent ...
Mari-Tureksky District (Russian: Мари́-Туре́кский райо́н; Meadow Mari: Марий Тӱрек кундем, Marij Türek kundem) is an administrative [1] and municipal [6] district , one of the fourteen in the Mari El Republic, Russia. It is located in the east of the republic.
The depression is located on the left side of the Volga, from the western borders of the Mari El to the Bolshaya Kokshaga River.The average height of the depression is between 50 meters (160 ft) and 100 meters (330 ft) and there are many small lakes and swamps. [1]