My native land

1. MY NATIVE LAND

2. 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.

3. POPULATION

Chuvashes – the
fourth big
nationalities (1.8
people) of Russia.
The majority of the
population are
Chuvashes (about
68 %) and Russian
(about 27 %).

4. OUR HISTORY

Our ancestors lived
in the Central Asia
and then came to
the Volga.
Soon a mongolotatar army of khan
Batyj has won
Volzhskaya Bulgaria.

5. TOGETHER FOREVER

Only 300 years
later they have
been released by
Russian tsar Ivan
Groznyi and
became a part of
Russian state.

6. CRAFTS

Chuvashes were
engaged in
woodcarving ,
pottery,
embroidery. The
embroidery was
the most mass
kind of creativity:
each woman could
do it very well.

7. OUR GUESTS

Catherine II,
Pavel I, wellknown writers
and poets –
A.Pushkin,
L.Tolstoy,
and others
visited our
land.

8. 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.

9. Krasnoarmeisky district

According to the legend
village Ubeevo was the
first settlement of our
ancestors.
Trakovskiy or
Krasnoarmejskij district
was formed on the 25-th of
January, 1935.
The population of
Krasnoarmejsky district in
2008 was about 16,7
thousand people
WE ARE PROUD OF OUR MOTHERLAND!