Elena Alexandrovna Bakhtina in the memoirs of Saransk residents

The article introduces into scientific circulation oral memoirs about the wife of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, Elena Aleksandrovna Bakhtina (nee Okolovich). The people who communicated with her in Saransk in 1945-1969 were interviewed by the authors in the 1980s - 2000s. Fragments of published memoirs of contemporaries about the Bakhtin spouses are also used. The results obtained allow us to clarify some details of Bakhtin’s biography, to get a more voluminous idea of his personality. The article continues a series of publications prepared on the basis of the memoirs of residents of Saransk and the Republic of Mordovia about Bakhtin.