Shoksha, Mordovia
Shoksha
Шокша | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Picture of Shoksha | |
Interactive map of Shoksha | |
  Shoksha Location of Shoksha  Shoksha Shoksha (Russia) | |
| Coordinates: 54°46′14″N 42°31′7″E / 54.77056°N 42.51861°E | |
| Country | Russia |
| Region | Mordovia |
| District | Tengushevsky District |
| Population | |
• Total | 540[1] |
| Time zone | UTC+3 |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+4 |
| Postal code | 431214[2] |
| Area code | +7 83445 |
Shoksha (Erzya: Шокш)[3] is a village in the Tengushevsky District of Mordovia mainly populated by Shokshas. The village is the administrative center of the Shokshinskoye rural settlement, which also includes the village of Malaya Shoksha.
Geography
It is located 14 kilometers from the district center of Tengushevo. The Shoksha River flows near the village and flows into the Moksha River.
Population
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 615 | — |
| 2005 | 599 | −0.87% |
| 2010 | 540 | −2.05% |
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| Source: [1][4] | ||
Dialect
The village's population speaks Russian, but primarily communicates in the Shoksha dialect. The Shoksha dialect is one of the isolated Erzya dialects, formed on an Erzya basis under the influence of the Moksha language.[5]
Infrastructure
The village has a secondary school (11 classes), a library, a community center, and a post office.
List of streets
- Verkhnyaya Street
- Zarechnaya Street
- Chernitsova Street
- Molodezhnaya Street
- Moskovskaya Street
- Nizhnyaya Street
- Potapovka Street
- Tabachnaya Street
Source:[6]
Notable people
The following were born in the village:
- Ivan Abramovich Pryakhin (1899-1930) - Knight of the Order of Saint George.
- Illarion Ershkov (1907-1972) - Hero of Socialist Labour.
- Ivan Pryakhin (1922-1983) - Participant of WWII, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Aleksandr Sharonov - Doctor of Philology, author of the Erzya - Moksha folk epic Mastorava.
- Gennady Grigorievich Meltsaev (born 1948) - People's Doctor of Mordovia, Chief Oncologist of Mordovia, Chief * Physician of the Republican Dispensary (1999-2018).
- Tatyana Nikolaevna Ovechkina (Kabaeva) (born 1950) - two-time Olympic champion.
- Nikolai Semenovich Sharonov (born 1959) - Major General of Justice, Honorary Worker of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.
References
- 1 2 "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Итоги по Красноярскому краю. 1.10 Численность населения гор.округов, мун.районов, гор. и сел. поселе". Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 2026-05-06.
- ↑ "Почтовые индексы России: Республика Мордовия, Теньгушевский район". Archived from the original on 2010-11-29. Retrieved 2026-05-06.
- ↑ Inzhevatov IK Shoksha // Toponymic dictionary of the Mordovian ASSR : Names of settlements / edited by VA Nikonov and DV Tsygankin. - Saransk: Mordovian book publishing house, 1987. - P. 248. - 15,000 copies.
- ↑ "Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года. Том. 1, таблица 4. Численность населения России, федеральных округов, субъектов Российской Федерации, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов - райцентров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более". Archived from the original on 3 February 2012. Retrieved 2026-05-06.
- ↑ Якушкин А. В. Дракинский диалект эрзя-мордовского языка // Очерки мордовских диалектов. — Т. 1. — Саранск, 1961.
- ↑ "Почтовый индекс село Шокша, Теньгушевский р-н, республика Мордовия". Почтовые индексы - Кодификант.ру. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2026-05-06.