M.M. Bakhtin's Saransk addresses

The article deals with two Saransk periods in the biography of M.M. Bakhtin (1936-1937; 1945-1969), gives data about his life at three addresses on Sovetskaya street: (Hotel «Tzentralnaya», hostel for teachers and employees of the Mordovia State Pedagogical institute named after A.I. Polezhaev / Mordovia State University, a residential building for teachers of the Mordovian State University and the Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute named after M.E. Evseviev. It presents some of his former neighbors' oral memories