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I. N. Ulianov Chuvash State University is the main university of Chuvashia in the Russian Federation. It is in Cheboksary, the capital of the Chuvash Republic, on the Volga River northeast of Moscow.The university has over 10,000 students and 3,865 faculty, including 77 Doctors of Sciences (equivalent to full professors) and 446 Candidates of Sciences (equivalent to PhDs).

The Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Chuvash: Чăваш Автономлă Совет Социаллă Республики, romanized: Chăwash Avtonomlă Sovet Sociallă Respubliki; Russian: Чувашская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика, romanized: Chuvashskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika) was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the Russian SFSR, which itself was within the Soviet Union.