Mashanov М.А. and His Contribution to the Studies of the History and Ethnography of Turkic and Finno-Ugric Peoples of the Middle Volga Region and Cisural Area (1852–1924)

Abstract

The issues of inter-ethnic and inter-confessional relations have always attracted the attention of researchers. The given paper is aimed at studying the life and activity of a missionary, a scientist and a lecturer of the missionary anti-Muslim department of the Kazan Theological Academy Mikhail Aleksandrovich Mashanov; his contribution to the investigation of the history, ethnography, language and culture of the Turkic and

Socio – cultural existence of modern East Mary subethnos

“…However, these materials contain generally common or fragmentary information about the Mari in general and the Oriental Mari, in particular. Historiographic analysis of the study of the Turkish and Finno-Ugric tribes is provided by the scientists of the Kazan Federal University (Valeev et al, 2015;Ivanov A.G. (1993). The archaeological aspect of the Finno-Ugric societies until 800 AD contain the scientific research of Christian Carpelan (Carpelan, 2006).…”