page_title: Mokshas
section_title: Culture
hierarchical_section_title: Mokshas / Culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Women from Zubu in traditional Moksha clothes
context_page_description: The Mokshas comprise a Mordvinian ethnic group belonging to the Volgaic branch of the Finno-Ugric peoples. They live in the Russian Federation, mostly near the Volga River and the Moksha River, a tributary of the Oka River.
  Their native language is Mokshan, one of the two surviving members of the Mordvinic branch of the Uralic language family. According to a 1994 Russian census, 49% of the autochthonal Finnic population in Mordovia identified themselves as Mokshas, totaling more than 180,000 people. Most Mokshas belong to the Russian Orthodox Church; other religions practised by Mokshas include Lutheranism
  and paganism.
caption: Moksha women in traditional clothes
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