Shoksha (Erzya: Шокш)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. is a village in the Tengushevsky District of Mordovia mainly populated by Shokshas. The village is the administrative center of the , which also includes the village of Malaya Shoksha.
Geography It is located 14 kilometers from the district center of Tengushevo. The flows near the village and flows into the Moksha River.
Population
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.Якушкин А. В. Дракинский диалект эрзя-мордовского языка // Очерки мордовских диалектов. — Т. 1. — Саранск, 1961.
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:
Notable people The following were born in the village:
Ivan Abramovich Pryakhin (1899-1930) - Knight of the Order of Saint George. (1907-1972) - Hero of Socialist Labour. (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.
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