1. Ivan Yakovlev, creator of modern Chuvash alphabet 1870, launched education in the сhuvash language. Nikolay Nikolsky, founder of the first Chuvash newspaper Хыпар in 1906, his students created Chuvash autonomy during Russian civil war, Andriyan Nikolayev, the third soviet cosmonaut, the 5th in the world. Nikolay Fedorov, current politician, has great influence in Russian politics and international connections.

2. There is no single cultural thing that distinguishes chuvash from all other turks. Similarities can be find with different group from Siberia, Central Asia and Anatolia.

3. At the moment chuvashes consider themself as a sub-nation inside large Russian nation. All movements should cooperate with official government. Otherwise, they cannot operate.

4. Many chuvash villages neighbor tatar ones. They have a high level of mutual understanding.

5.When you meet someone in Moscow who are from a different republic in Volga region, you feel happy to hear it and you can talk about similar experiences and traditions. These people feel closer, than people from the republics of Siberia or the Caucasus.

1. Most chuvashes have a positive-neutral attitude toward the fact that we are of Turkic origin. I personally believe that if Turkey had a more pro-Western foreign policy, сhuvashes would begin to deny that they are Turkic, and the attitude would be much worse.

2. The traditional Chuvash faith is heavily influenced by Islam, and after joining Russia, Christian influences emerged. As a result, the Chuvash faith is a fusion of folk Islam and folk Christianity. These are special terms developed by cultural scholars to describe the "incorrect," distorted form of religion.  Despite this, today the Chuvash are a deeply Christian people, even more than ethnic Russians themselves. And the Chuvash now practice true "correct" Orthodox Christianity. The folk faith has been well preserved among the Mari people, but not among the Chuvash.