On the wide Volga №1 -2 (1994)

Special issue.

The Mari El Republic in a newsreel.

An excerpt from the film "A Start in Life", Yivan Kyrla (Ivanov Kirill) plays the main role of Mustafa.

Photograph of the Mari actor and poet Yivan Kyrla.

Photograph of the mother of the Mari actor and poet Yivan Kyrla.

View of the Mari village of Kupsola.

A teacher with students in a classroom at a rural school.

Collections of poems by the poet Yivan Kyrla.

Footage from a newsreel from the collectivization era of 1928-1937.

Newsreel footage from 1930–1937. Photographs: Mari Theatre in Yoshkar-Ola, Chairman of the Mari Executive Committee Ivan Petrov, Director of the Yoshkar-Ola Theatre Prokopiy Karpov, actor and poet Yivan Kyrla (Kirill Ivanov), actors of the Mari Theatre.

Excerpt from the film “A Start in Life”.

Photographs of the Mari intelligentsia executed in 1937 by the NKVD Directorate of the Mari ASSR. Documents: verdict, interrogation protocol.

Newsreel footage of convicts working in camps.

Actor Pyotr Maksimovich Pushkin in the auditorium of the Yoshkar-Ola Theatre.

Writer Ivanov-Batraka’s widow Maria Yegorovna Ivanova.

Museum of the Mari poet and actor Yivan Kyrla.