M.M. Bakhtin and the literary life of Mordovia in the second half of the 1940s. In addition to the above

The article represents one of the little-known episodes of M.M. Bakhtin's life and work in Saransk: his participation as a lecturer in the meeting of Mordovia young writers, held in the capital of the republic in the summer of 1947. The sources of the research are publications of the Mordovia republican press of 1947, materials from M.M. Bakhtin's personal archive.