AT THE ORIGIN OF SELF-DETERMINATION: THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST ALL-RUSSIAN CONGRESS OF THE MARI
The article is devoted to the First All-Russian Congress of the Mari people. The author notes the importance and signiﬁcance of the congress in the life of the Mari people. In 1917, soldiers and ofﬁcers of the Birsk garrison decided to establish the Mari Ushem organization at the Birsk training seminary. The article focuses on the protocols of the I All-Russian Congress of the Mari people written in the Mari language, which were provided by archive workers. These protocols set out important tasks concerning the issues of teaching at schools in the native language, publishing books in the Mari language, and other important issues relating to culture, art, publishing newspapers and magazines.