Propagandaworld Archive

(R.22.22)

Price: 29.00 euro
Size box: 7cm./2.7inch.
Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch.
Weight: 70gr./2.4oz.
Year: 1971
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org

Medal in box from the Russian Socialist Federative Republic of Chuvashia. The text on the medal reads:”100 years of new Chuvash writing”. The text in in 2 languages. The new Chuvash script is associated with the name of the great educator Ivan Yakovlev. He and his collaborators created an alphabet in 1871 that took into account the phonetic features of Chuvash speech, which prompted the development of the Chuvash literary language. In the first half of the 20th century, the Chuvash alphabet changed significantly, caused by the general orientation of the Soviet Union’s national policy and aimed at bringing it closer to Russian spelling.
Ivan Yakovlevich Yakovlev (1848-1930) was a Chuvash enlightener, educator, and writer. The Chuvash State Pedagogical Institute bears Ivan Yakovlev’s name. There is also a monument and a museum of Ivan Yakovlev in Cheboksary.
The Chuvash Republic, or Chuvashia, is a federal subject of Russia (a republic) in Eastern Europe. It is the homeland of the Chuvash people, a Turkic ethnic group. Its capital is the city of Cheboksary. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,251,619.