{"id":7869,"date":"2017-07-16T22:46:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T22:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/?page_id=7869"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:23:25","slug":"natbibmordovia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slavic\/spx\/slavicresearchguides\/nationalbib\/natbibmordovia\/","title":{"rendered":"National Bibliography of the Republic of Mordoviia"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"nav nav-tabs\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/spx\/aboutus\/\">About Us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/spx\/collectionhighlights\/\">Collections<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/spx\/srs\/\">Slavic Reference Service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Research Guides \" href=\"http:\/\/www.library.uiuc.edu\/ias\/spx\/slavicresearchguides\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Research Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/visitingscholars\/\">Visiting Scholars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/spx\/conferences\/\">Events and News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*As of 2025, due to increased censorship and restrictions, some links may not be available. We are consistently monitoring access and updating links as necessary.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"top\"><\/a>After the creation of the Mordovian Autonomous Oblast\u2019 in 1930,\u00a0 the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established in 1934. In 1993, it was officially granted the status of Republic of Mordoviia within the Russian Federation. Its capital is Saransk.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.3em\">Two main languages are spoken in the Republic of Mordoviia: Erzya and Moksha. Both are Uralic languages. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The following is a beginning guide to bibliographic tools for researchers of Mordoviia. Though not a comprehensive overview, this guide outlines three primary ways research can access bibliographic information about Mordovian publications:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>(1) <a href=\"https:\/\/i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/search?query=any,contains,Rossi%C4%ADskai%EF%B8%A0a%EF%B8%A1%20nat%EF%B8%A0s%EF%B8%A1ional%CA%B9nai%EF%B8%A0a%EF%B8%A1%20biblioteka%20Otdel%20literatury%20nat%EF%B8%A0s%EF%B8%A1ional%CA%B9nykh%20i%EF%B8%A0a%EF%B8%A1zykakh&amp;tab=LibraryCatalog&amp;search_scope=MyInstitution&amp;vid=01CARLI_UIU:CARLI_UIU&amp;lang=en&amp;offset=0\"> The\u00a0Russian National Library&#8217;s Department of Literature in National Languages imprint catalog <\/a><\/div>\n<div>(2) The <a href=\"https:\/\/natlibraryrm.ru\/\">National Library of the Republic of Mordoviia online library catalog<\/a><\/div>\n<div>(3)\u00a0The <a href=\"https:\/\/natlibraryrm.ru\/category\/letopis-pechati\/\"><em>l<\/em><em>etopis&#8217; pechati <\/em><\/a> or print chronicles of the Republic of Mordoviia<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This guide also highlights several other resources related to Mordovian history, culture, and language. Researchers may also want to consult the following online database for additional coverage: <a style=\"line-height: 1.3em;background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nlr.ru\/rlin\/ruslbr_v3.php?database=ONL2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Elektronnyi katalog knig na iazykakh narodov RF i stran SNG <\/a> <span style=\"line-height: 1.3em\"> from the Russian National Library. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sources: The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Volume 16, page 566-571); <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethnologue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Ethnologue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"catalogs\"><\/a> LIBRARY CATALOGS<\/h2>\n<h3>Natsional&#8217;naia biblioteka im. A.S. Pushkina Respubliki Mordoviia<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.saransk.ru\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> http:\/\/www.library.saransk.ru\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The catalog for the National Library of the Republic of Mordoviia can be accessed through <a href=\"http:\/\/irbis.library.saransk.ru\/WEB_IRBIS64\/irbis64r_62\/cgiirbis_64.exe?C21COM=F&amp;I21DBN=IBIS&amp;p21DBN=IBIS&amp;Z21ID=\"> this search interface <\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em\"> Users can select the database they want to search from the list on the left hand side. The catalog contains bibliographic information for the following materials: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The electronic catalog (for books)<\/li>\n<li>Journal articles<\/li>\n<li>Local history<\/li>\n<li>Rare items<\/li>\n<li>Literature on art<\/li>\n<li>Audio materials<\/li>\n<li>Video materials<\/li>\n<li>Subscriptions<\/li>\n<li>Book Chamber of the Republic of Mordoviia<\/li>\n<li>Analytical articles<\/li>\n<li>Technology patents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the right hand side, users can choose a basic search, an advanced search, and navigation by word, GRNTI and UDK. The advanced option is shown above and gives users the ability to search by keyword, theme, author, type of holding, ISSN\/ISBN, and date of publication. The results give basic bibliographic information for holdings including title, author, date of publication, BBK, rubric, and location of available copies.<\/p>\n<h3><a name=\"imprint\"><\/a> Rossii\u0306skai\ufe20a\ufe21 nat\ufe20s\ufe21ional\u02b9nai\ufe20a\ufe21 biblioteka. Otdel literatury na nat\ufe20s\ufe21ional\u02b9nykh i\ufe20a\ufe21zykakh.<\/h3>\n<p>The Russian National Library&#8217;s Department of Literature in National Languages [also known as the Department of National Literatures] of the Russian Federation,\u00a0Commonwealth of Independent States, and the Baltic countries has reproduced holdings catalogs in microfiche format.\u00a0The national languages imprints catalogs in microfiche format diffuse most of the difficulties associated with transliteration in the vernacular languages, spelling, forms of entry, and uncertainties with the entirety of the collection. Researchers can access the entire holdings for a specific language at the Russian National Library through the microfiche set; conveniently exporting selected titles via PDF scans.\u00a0The following scans reflect some of the Erzya and Moksha Mordovian\u00a0language holdings available in microfiche format.<\/p>\n<h3>Katalog literatury na <strong> mordovskom<\/strong>-erzia yazyke [microform]<\/h3>\n<p>New York: N. Ross, 1997. <strong>U of I Library Call Number:<\/strong>\u00a0MFICHE 016.94746 R736k4 International and Area Studies Library, Microfilm Room. <a href=\"\/\/i-share.carli.illinois.edu\/uiu\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&amp;v1=1&amp;BBRecID=6885497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> U\u00a0of I record<\/a> . <strong>OCLC Accession Number:<\/strong> 702846504.<\/p>\n<h3>Katalog literatury na <strong> mordovskom<\/strong>-moksha yazyke [microform]<\/h3>\n<p>New York: N. Ross, 1997. <strong>U of I Library Call Number:<\/strong>\u00a0MFICHE 016.94746 R736k3 International and Area Studies Library, Microfilm Room. <a href=\"\/\/i-share.carli.illinois.edu\/uiu\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&amp;v1=1&amp;BBRecID=6885480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> U\u00a0of I Record<\/a>. <strong>OCLC Accession Number:<\/strong> 702846540.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em\" title=\"imprint_mordovia_1\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/media\/nationalbib\/images\/mordovia_images\/mordov_1.jpg\" alt=\"Scanned card from Mordovian imprint catalog example 1\" width=\"368\" height=\"219\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alt Text: Example of a bibliographic entry in microfiche format.<\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"general\"><\/a> GENERAL RESOURCES<\/h2>\n<h3><em>Letopis&#8217; pechati<\/em> and national bibliography of Mordoviia<\/h3>\n<p>By collecting the materials published in the republic, the Book Chamber of Mordoviia plays an important role in the preservation of Mordovian culture and national bibliography. The Book Chamber collects and preserves physical copies of books, dissertation abstracts, journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and other types of materials published in Mordoviia. The archive for local press of Mordoviia was first founded within the republic&#8217;s National Library in 1948. Since 1958, the library fulfills the role of Book Chamber for Mordoviia, and publishes records of the publications in the republic. In 1959, it began publishing <em>l<\/em><em>etopisi pechati<\/em> (also retroactively).\u00a0<em>Letopisi pechati<\/em>\u00a0are chronicles of bibliographic data on all items (within particular categories) published in the Republic of Mordoviia within a given year. There is detailed bibliographic information provided for each publication.\u00a0Entry information for these materials includes a general classification number given at the beginning of the section, a consecutive entry number, author, title, place of publication, publisher, date, pagination, illustrations, size, serial statement, ISBN or ISSN, number of copies printed, price, government registration number, e.g. [94-1546]; and other necessary bibliographic information for citations. The National Library website for the Republic of Mordoviia currently only offers online access to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.saransk.ru\/letopis\/index.php\"><em>letopis&#8217; pechati<\/em>\u00a0from 2006<\/a>. This <em>letopis&#8217; pechati<\/em>\u00a0includes chronicles of books, journal articles, newspaper articles, articles about Mordoviia in the Russian press, abstracts of dissertations, periodicals and continuing publications, artwork, musical scores, and reviews. The chronicle includes all information necessary for citation. (SOURCE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.saransk.ru\/about\/kp.php\">National Library of Mordoviia)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Through WorldCat, users can find other issues of the <em>letopis\u2019 pechati<\/em> in physical (OCLC accession number 15215211 or 52851813) and electronic form (OCLC accession number 609865379).\u00a0The National Library of Mordoviia also publishes many other bibliographic and other reference materials. Users can find an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.saransk.ru\/publics\/\">overview of the publications of the last ten years<\/a> on the library\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<h4>Newspapers and periodicals<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em\">In 1972, <\/span> <span style=\"line-height: 1.3em\"> 110 books and pamphlets (727,000 copies) were published in Mordoviia. The following is a select list of newspapers published in the republic: <\/span> <em> Mokshen pravda <\/em> (1921) in Moksha; <em> Erzian pravda <\/em> (1921) in Erzya; <em> Sovetskaia Mordovia <\/em> (1918) in Russian; and <em> Molodoi leninets <\/em> (1939) in Russian. There are also the following two literary journals: <em> Siatko <\/em> (1929) in Erzya, and <em> Moksha <\/em> (1928) in Moksha. Users can consult <em> <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/media\/nationalbib\/gazetyssr_pdfs\/mordov_news.pdf\"> Gazety SSSR 1917-1960: Bibliograficheskii spravochnik 5 <\/a> <\/em> for a comprehensive list of newspapers published in Mordoviia during these years.<\/p>\n<h3>Finno-ugorskie biblioteki Rossii<\/h3>\n<p>The online platform <a href=\"http:\/\/fulr.karelia.ru\/\">Finno-ugorskie biblioteki Rossii<\/a> is a collaborative project of the National Library of the Karelian Republic, the Russian and East European Institute in Helsinki, the Slavic library of the University of Helsinki, and the M. Kastren Society, is meant to make it easier for users to navigate the different Finno-Ugric libraries in various regions of the Russian Federation and in other countries, and to create an electronic collection of publications in Finno-Ugric languages. Users search by geographical area or by names of important figures in Finno-Ugric literature and folklore. For each of the Finno-Ugric language areas of the Russian Federation \u2013 Kareliia, Udmurtiia, Komi, Marii El, Mordoviia, Khanti-Mansiisk, Murmansk, and Tver &#8211; the website provides links to major libraries and useful library resources, a list with municipal libraries, and an overview of major educational and research institutions. Of particular interest to researchers of Mordoviia may be the <a href=\"http:\/\/fulr.karelia.ru\/Resursy\/Kalejdoskop\/Izdatelstva_Mordovii\/Izdatelstva-Mordovii\/\">page<\/a> with an overview of major publishing houses in Mordoviia, as well as short descriptions of significant recent works on Mordoviian history, culture, and literature.<\/p>\n<p>The related databases <a href=\"http:\/\/uralica.com\/finland.html\">Uralica<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansalliskirjasto.fi\/en\/collections\/fenno-ugrica\">Fenno-Ugrika<\/a> allow users to navigate other digitized Finno-Ugric-language materials. \u00a0For users interested in more transnational research, the website of the National Library of Komi provides an <a href=\"http:\/\/old.nbrkomi.ru\/page\/1111\/\">overview of additional Finn-Ugric resources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Archival materials<\/h3>\n<p>The Central State Archive of the Republic of Mordoviia is the main archive of Mordoviia. The archive does not have its own website, but users interested in materials from this archive can find information on the official website of the Republic of Mordoviia. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-mordovia.ru\/gosudarstvennaya-vlast-rm\/ministerstva-i-vedomstva\/archive\/tsentralnyy-gosudarstvennyy-arkhiv-respubliki-mordoviya\/\">page designated to the Central State Archive<\/a>\u00a0(http:\/\/www.e-mordovia.ru\/ is unresponsive as of January 2020) provides information about the archive\u2019s services and history, as well as documents with overviews of the archive\u2019s different collections. There are three archival guides\u00a0(under \u201cspiski fondov\u201d):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A comprehensive guide (&#8220;spisok fondov&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>A guide for personal files (&#8220;spisok lichnogo proiskhozhdeniia&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>A guide for materials for the pre-revolutionary period (&#8220;spisok fondov dorevoliutsionnogo perioda&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Languages and keyboards<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em\">Two main languages are spoken in the Republic of Mordoviia: Erzya and Moksha. Both are Uralic languages.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em\">\u00a0Erzya is also referred to as Erza-Mordvin, Erzia, Erzya Mordva, Erzya Mordvin, Mordvin, Mordvin-Erzya. <\/span> <span style=\"line-height: 1.3em\"> Moksha is also referred to as Moksha Mordvin, Mokshan, Mordoff, Mordov, Mordvin-Moksha. Erzya and Moksha both use the same alphabet, and it corresponds with the Russian alphabet. Users interested in working with vernacular languages, can download a <a href=\"https:\/\/chuvash.eu\/2015\/01\/03\/creating-a-russian-extended-keyboard-layout\/\">Cyrillic extended keyboard<\/a> that can be used for Erzya, Moksha, and many of the other languages of the Russian Federation<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sources:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethnologue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ethnologue;\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ru.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C#%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%86_XVII_%E2%80%94_%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_XIX_%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0\">Mordovskaia pis&#8217;mennost&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Us Collections Slavic Reference Service Research Resources Visiting Scholars Events and News *As of 2025, due to increased censorship and restrictions, some links may not be available. 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