1. It declared sovereignty on 26 October 1990 as the Chuvash SSR.

2. Most of them live in the Republic of Chuvashia and surrounding areas, although Chuvash communities may be found throughout the Russian Federation.

3. The Cyrillic alphabet is an alphabet used to write six Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian), as well as other languages of Russia and the former Soviet Union, such as Tatar, Chuvash, Azeri (1940-1991), Turkmen (1940-1994), Uzbek (1940-1998), Kyrgyz, Kazakh (all Turkic languages), Tajik (an Indo