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Yakov Pahomovich Grigoshin (1888–1939) was an Erzya poet. He is considered to be the founder of Erzya literature. He wrote his first poems in Russian while studying to become a teacher, but later he used his native language Erzya. He authored some of the first Erzya-language textbooks and published several collections of poems and stories. Grigoshin was shot to death in the Great Purge.[1]

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