Bolshiye Toktashi (russian: Большие Токташи; cv, Мăн Тукташ, ''Măn Tuktaş'') is a
rural locality
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(a
village
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) in
Alikovsky District
Alikovsky District (russian: А́ликовский райо́н; cv, Элӗк районӗ, ''Elĕk rayonĕ'') is an administrativeLaw #28 and municipalLaw #37 district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Chuvash Republic, Russia. It is located ...
of the
Chuvash Republic
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,
Russia
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, located southwest of the district's
administrative center
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of
Alikovo
Alikovo may refer to:
*Alikovo, Alikovsky District, Chuvash Republic, a village (''selo'') in Alikovsky District of the Chuvash Republic, Russia
* Alikovo, Krasnochetaysky District, Chuvash Republic, a village in Krasnochetaysky District
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Чувашская энциклопедия
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The majority of the village population is Chuvash. Village facilities include a club, a library, a first-aid post, a shop, and Ilya Toktash Literature Museum.
The Khirlep River flows in the vicinity of the village.
The climate in the village is moderately continental, with long cold winters and warm summers. Average January temperature is ; average July temperature—. The absolute minimum recorded in the village is , and the absolute maximum—. Annual precipitation is up to .
Etymology
The Chuvash word "man" means "big", while "Toktash" is a proper name.
Notable natives
*Anatoly Serep
Anatoly Trofimovich Serep (Chuvash language, Chuvash & russian: Сереп Анатолий Трофимович; 1920–2003), was a Chuvash people, Chuvash writer and poet.
Biography
Serep was born 1920 in the village of Man Toktashin the A ...
, Chuvash writer
*Arkady Malov
Arkady Vasilyevich Malov (Chuvash language, Chuvash and russian: Аркадий Васильевич Малов; 28 April 1928 in Bolshiye Toktashi village, Alikovsky District, Chuvash Republic – 25 April 1995 in Cheboksary) was a Chuvash pe ...
, Chuvash writer, translator
*Ille Toktash
Ille Tuktash ( cv, Илле Тукташ; 1907–1957), also Ilya Tuktash (russian: Илья Семёнович Тукташ), was a Chuvash writer and poet. He was a member of the USSR Union of Writers.Gerasim Pileš
Gerasim Pileš ( Chuvash & russian: link=no, Харлампьев Герасим Дмитриевич, February 2, 1913, Man Toktash village, Russia – November 2, 2003, Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic, Russia) – a Soviet Chuvash writer playwrigh ...
, Chuvash writer, grafic artist, playwright, sculptor
* Nikolai Ivanov, Chuvash artist
Further reading
*L. A. Efimov, "Элӗк Енӗ", Alikovo, 1994.
*"Аликовская энциклопедия", (Encyklopaedia of Alikovo) editors: Efimov L.A., Efimov E.L., Ananjev A. A., Terentjev G. K., Cheboksary, 2009, .
References
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Rural localities in Chuvashia
Alikovsky District
Kurmyshsky Uyezd