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=== Restoration of Erzya and Moksha ethnonyms === {{Main|Boris Smirnov (ethnologist)#Letter to Kremlin regarding Mordovia renaming}} [[Mokshas]] from [[:ru:Алькино (Мордовия)|Altä velä]] wrote a collective open letter to [[Literaturnaya Gazeta]] in 1991. {{blockquote|The authors of a letter sent to Literaturnaia gazeta from the Moksha [[:ru:Алькино (Мордовия)|Altä velä]], [[Mordovia]], call this ethnonym "a very nonsensical parasite-word," "a slur," "an awkward nickname" that can be blamed for the fact that "people have come to renounce their true origin, and have rushed in droves (especially the young people) to become Russians. And perhaps history may soon witness that sorry time when the world's civilization, in an instant, will lose forever two remarkable nationalities, and Mordovia will be nothing more than the term for an administrative territory.…"<ref>{{harvnb|Mokshin|1991}}</ref>}} On the First Erzya and Moksha Peoples' Congress in 1989 the first point of the Congress Declaration was renaming [[Mordovia]] to the Erzya and Moksha Autonomous Republic and banning the term ''Mordva''.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Nadkin|first1=Dmitry|title=Erzya and Moksha Spiritual Culture and Issues of "Homeland" Society. Insights from the Report of the First Moksha and Erzya Congress |url= https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/duhovnaya-kultura-mordvy-i-zadachi-obschestva-mastorava-tezisy-doklada-na-pervom-sezde-mordovskogo-kulturno-prosvetitelnogo-obschestva|journal=Engineering Systems and Technologies|year=1989 |issue=4 |pages=38–41 |access-date=15 May 2022 |language=ru}}</ref>
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