Mari El
Mari El Republic | |
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Республика Марий Эл | |
Other transcription(s) | |
• Meadow Mari | Марий Эл Республик |
• Hill Mari | Мары Эл Республик |
ISO 3166 code | RU-ME |
License plates | 12 |
OKTMO ID | 88000000 |
Official languages | Russian;[10] Mari (Meadow and Hill variants)[11] |
Website | https://mari-el.gov.ru/ |
People | Mari |
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Language | Marij |
Country | Mari El |
Mari El (
Mari El, one of Russia's
Geography
The Republic is located in the eastern part of the
There are 476 rivers in the Republic, with the Volga and its tributaries being the major water arteries. Most rivers are considered to be minor—10–50 m (33–164 ft) wide and 0.5–1.4 m (1 ft 8 in – 4 ft 7 in) deep—and usually freeze between mid-November and mid-April. There are over 700 lakes and ponds; many located in the swampy areas and have areas of less than 1 km2 (0.39 sq mi) and depths of 1–3 m (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in). Lake Yalchik, occupying 150 hectares (370 acres), is the largest by area, while Lake Tabashinskoye is the deepest. Swamps cover large areas—10–70 km2 (3.9–27.0 sq mi) and up to 100 km2 (39 sq mi)—and usually freeze in December. While swamps tend to be shallow, with an average depth of 0.5–1.5 m (1 ft 8 in – 4 ft 11 in), they are impassable in fall and spring due to flooding.[citation needed]
Climate is moderately continental, with moderately cold and snowy winters and warm and often rainy summers. The average temperatures range from 18–20 °C (64–68 °F) in summer to −18 – −20 °C (0 – −4 °F) in winter. November is the windiest month of the year. Annual precipitation varies from 450 to 500 mm (18 to 20 in).
There are virtually no natural resources of industrial significance in the Republic. Other resources include peat, mineral waters, and limestone. About 50% of the Republic's territory is forested, although the level of forestation varies significantly from one district to another.[citation needed]
History
Ancient Mari tribes were known since the 5th century, though archaeologists suspect that the Mari culture is much older in its roots. Later their area was a tributary of Volga Bulgaria and the Golden Horde. In the 1440s it was incorporated into the Khanate of Kazan and was occupied by the Tsardom of Russia (governed by Ivan the Terrible) after the fall of Kazan in 1552.
After the
The name of the republic is based on the ethnic self-designation of its indigenous population – Марий, "Mari" (from мари, "man, husband"), and эл, "country, land".[17]
Administrative divisions
Politics
The head of government in the Mari El Republic is the Head (formerly President). As of 2017, the Head was Alexander Yevstifeyev, who was appointed in April 2017.[18]
The government of Mari El has been pursuing Russification in recent years, with the former head of the republic, Leonid Markelov, ordering many Mari language newspapers to close.[citation needed] Many ethnic Mari activists live in fear of violence. The Mari activist and chief editor Vladimir Kozlov was badly beaten after he criticized Markelov's government. Other Mari leaders have been subject to violence, legal persecution, and intimidation.[19]
The
The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), in an exhaustive 2006 report Russian Federation: The Human Rights Situation of the Mari Minority of the Republic of Mari El, found widespread evidence of political and cultural persecution of Mari people, and of "a broader trend of repression of dissidents in the republic".[21]
Demographics
Population: 696,459 (2010 Russian census);[13] 727,979 (2002 Census);[22] 749,386 (1989 Soviet census).[23]
Vital statistics
- Source: Russian Federal State Statistics Service Archived April 12, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
Average population (x 1000) | Live births | Deaths | Natural change | Crude birth rate (per 1000) | Crude death rate (per 1000) | Natural change (per 1000) | Fertility rates | |
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1970 | 686 | 10,505 | 6,364 | 4,141 | 15.3 | 9.3 | 6.0 | |
1975 | 695 | 11,816 | 7,190 | 4,626 | 17.0 | 10.3 | 6.7 | |
1980 | 710 | 13,169 | 8,091 | 5,078 | 18.5 | 11.4 | 7.2 | |
1985 | 728 | 14,198 | 8,529 | 5,669 | 19.5 | 11.7 | 7.8 | |
1990 | 755 | 11,953 | 7,775 | 4,178 | 15.8 | 10.3 | 5.5 | 2,16 |
1991 | 756 | 10,578 | 7,786 | 2,792 | 14.0 | 10.3 | 3.7 | 1,97 |
1992 | 758 | 9,227 | 8,330 | 897 | 12.2 | 11.0 | 1.2 | 1,76 |
1993 | 758 | 8,019 | 9,622 | - 1,603 | 10.6 | 12.7 | - 2.1 | 1,56 |
1994 | 758 | 7,851 | 10,788 | - 2,937 | 10.4 | 14.2 | - 3.9 | 1,53 |
1995 | 757 | 7,337 | 9,999 | - 2,662 | 9.7 | 13.2 | - 3.5 | 1,43 |
1996 | 755 | 6,952 | 9,495 | - 2,543 | 9.2 | 12.6 | - 3.4 | 1,35 |
1997 | 752 | 6,782 | 9,625 | - 2,843 | 9.0 | 12.8 | - 3.8 | 1,32 |
1998 | 749 | 6,657 | 9,623 | - 2,966 | 8.9 | 12.8 | - 4.0 | 1,29 |
1999 | 746 | 6,597 | 10,674 | - 4,077 | 8.8 | 14.3 | - 5.5 | 1,28 |
2000 | 741 | 6,784 | 11,040 | - 4,256 | 9.1 | 14.9 | - 5.7 | 1,30 |
2001 | 736 | 6,832 | 11,434 | - 4,602 | 9.3 | 15.5 | - 6.3 | 1,30 |
2002 | 729 | 7,300 | 12,105 | - 4,805 | 10.0 | 16.6 | - 6.6 | 1,38 |
2003 | 723 | 7,515 | 11,861 | - 4,346 | 10.4 | 16.4 | - 6.0 | 1,40 |
2004 | 718 | 7,715 | 12,098 | - 4,383 | 10.7 | 16.9 | - 6.1 | 1,40 |
2005 | 713 | 7,475 | 12,256 | - 4,781 | 10.5 | 17.2 | - 6.7 | 1,34 |
2006 | 708 | 7,550 | 11,286 | - 3,736 | 10.7 | 15.9 | - 5.3 | 1,32 |
2007 | 704 | 8,306 | 10,745 | - 2,439 | 11.8 | 15.3 | - 3.5 | 1,45 |
2008 | 701 | 8,620 | 10,699 | - 2,079 | 12.3 | 15.3 | - 3.0 | 1,50 |
2009 | 699 | 8,896 | 10,435 | - 1,539 | 12.7 | 14.9 | - 2.2 | 1,60 |
2010 | 696 | 8,857 | 10,572 | - 1,715 | 12.7 | 15.2 | - 2.5 | 1,59 |
2011 | 694 | 9,066 | 9,816 | - 750 | 13.0 | 14.1 | - 1.1 | 1,66 |
2012 | 691 | 9,834 | 9,449 | 385 | 14.2 | 13.7 | 0.5 | 1,83 |
2013 | 689 | 10,088 | 9,444 | 644 | 14.6 | 13.7 | 0.9 | 1,93 |
2014 | 688 | 10,081 | 9,411 | 670 | 14.7 | 13.7 | 1.0 | 1,98 |
2015 | 687 | 9,951 | 9,448 | 503 | 14.5 | 13.7 | 0.8 | 1,99 |
2016 | 685 | 9,567 | 9,025 | 542 | 13.9 | 13.2 | 0.7 | 1,98 |
2017 | 683 | 8,147 | 8,493 | -346 | 11.9 | 12.4 | -0.5 | 1,75 |
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1939 | 398,014 | — |
1959 | 647,680 | +62.7% |
1970 | 684,748 | +5.7% |
1979 | 702,744 | +2.6% |
1989 | 749,386 | +6.6% |
2002 | 727,979 | −2.9% |
2010 | 696,459 | −4.3% |
2021 | 677,097 | −2.8% |
Source: Census data |
Note: Total fertility rate source.[24]
Ethnic groups
Though the Mari people have lived in the area for millennia, they did not have a designated territory before the
Since
Ethnic group |
1926 Census | 1939 Census | 1959 Census | 1970 Census | 1979 Census | 1989 Census | 2002 Census | 2010 Census[13] | 2021 Census[25] | |||||||||
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Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
Mari | 247,979 | 51.4% | 273,332 | 47.2% | 279,450 | 43.1% | 299,179 | 43.7% | 306,627 | 43.5% | 324,349 | 43.3% | 312,178 | 42.9% | 290,863 | 43.9% | 246,560 | 40.1% |
Russians | 210,016 | 43.6% | 266,951 | 46.1% | 309,514 | 47.8% | 320,825 | 46.9% | 334,561 | 47.5% | 355,973 | 47.5% | 345,513 | 47.5% | 313,947 | 47.4% | 322,932 | 52.5% |
Tatars | 20,219 | 4.2% | 27,149 | 4.7% | 38,821 | 6.0% | 40,279 | 5.9% | 40,917 | 5.8% | 43,850 | 5.9% | 43,377 | 6.0% | 38,357 | 5.8% | 29,317 | 4.8% |
Chuvash | 2,184 | 0.5% | 5,504 | 0.9% | 9,065 | 1.4% | 9,032 | 1.3% | 8,087 | 1.1% | 8,993 | 1.2% | 7,418 | 1.0% | 6,025 | 0.9% | 3,656 | 0.6% |
Others | 1,703 | 0.4% | 6,674 | 1.2% | 10,830 | 1.7% | 15,433 | 2.3% | 14,015 | 2.0% | 16,167 | 2.2% | 19,943 | 2.7% | 13,138 | 2.0% | 12,494 | 2.0% |
1 62,138 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.[26] |
Religion
The religions with the most adherents in the republic are
During the 1990s the religion was officially recognized by the State and began to revive. The Mari gather at around 520 holy groves where they offer animal and vegetable sacrifices, there are about 20 festivals yearly. Although traditional religion is one of Mari El's three officially recognized religions (along with Orthodoxy and Islam) Mari religious practises have come under increasing pressure, according to human rights groups.[29]
According to a 2012 survey,
Education
The most important facilities of higher education are
For the past few years, the Mari El Republic has been participating in the national project "Education" ("Oбразование"), which is designed to improve education throughout Russia by bringing new technology into the classroom, improving material conditions in schools, and providing financial awards to extraordinary students and teachers. Although the Mari language is officially a state language, Mari educators and administrators have been forced from their positions in recent years and Mari-language education has been defunded, according to the
Economy
The most developed industries are machine construction, metalworking, timber, woodworking, and food industries. Most of the industrial enterprises are located in the capital Yoshkar-Ola, as well as in the towns of Kozmodemyansk, Volzhsk, and Zvenigovo.[citation needed]
The largest companies in the region include Mariysky Oil Refinery (revenues of $502.2 million in 2017), Mari Pulp and Paper Mill ($137.12 million), Shelanger Chemical Plant "Siver" ($14.52 million), Marbiopharm ($14.02 million).[33]
Transportation
Traveling cheaply and quickly to various towns and villages within the Republic is made possible through a network of fifteen train stations, fifty-three bus stations, and numerous marshrutkas. The republic is connected to different regions throughout Russia by daily trains to and from Moscow and Kazan, flights on one commercial airline from Yoshkar-Ola Airport, located near Yoshkar-Ola, and a port on the Volga River in Kozmodemyansk. There are also four other minor river ports in the republic. Regional automobile code is 12.[citation needed]
Communication
Telephony, Internet service, and cable television are provided by VolgaTelecom.[citation needed]
Culture
There are many museums located throughout the territory of the republic. The largest ones include the National Museum, the Museum of History, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Yoshkar-Ola; the Museum of Arts and History, the Ethnographic Open-Air Museum, and the Merchant Life Museum in Kozmodemyansk; and the Sheremetyev Castle Museum-reserve in Yurino. There are also museums dedicated to the poet Nikolay Mukhin and the composer Ivan Klyuchnikov-Palantay in Yoshkar-Ola and the house-museum of writer Sergei Chavayn in Chavaynur.
Five theaters are located in Yoshkar-Ola with performances in both the Russian and Mari languages.
Notable people
- Valentin Kolumb, poet
- Shabdar Osyp, author
- Andrei Eshpai, composer, pianist
See also
- Mari National Rebirth Party "Ushem"
Notes
- ^ Russian: Респу́блика Мари́й Эл, Respublika Mariy El; Meadow Mari: Марий Эл Республик; Hill Mari: Мары Эл Республик
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- 24 июня 1995 г. «Конституция Республики Марий Эл», в ред. Закона №21-З от 31 июля 2014 г. «О поправке 59 к Конституции Республики Марий Эл». Вступил в силу 7 июля 1995 г. (за исключением отдельных положений). Опубликован: "Марийская правда", 7 июля 1995 г. (June 24, 1995 Constitution of the Mari El Republic, as amended by the Law #21-Z of July 31, 2014 On Amendment 59 to the Constitution of the Mari El Republic. Effective as of July 7, 1995 (with the exception of several clauses).).
External links
- (in Russian) Old Official website of the Mari El Republic
- (in Russian) Official website of the Mari El Republic Archived April 8, 2020, at the Wayback Machine
- (in Russian) Industry in the Mari El Republic
- Mari El Republic nature views and sceneries
- A short Meadow Mari-English dictionary
- (in Russian) Meadow Mari-Russian-Japanese dictionary
- (in Russian) About nature in Mari EL republic
- Kimberli Mäkäräinen's Meadow Mari Grammar
- (in Russian) Map of Mari El
Further reading
- Daniel Kalder. Lost Cosmonaut: Observations of an Anti-tourist