Rasken Ozsk can be translated into Russian as folk (tribal) praying. It is held in the village of Chukaly (Mordovia Republic) every summer since 1999.

Apart from praying to the ancestors and the festival itself, at the holiday the Erzya solve current issues of all Erzya people and plan long-term development of the ethnos.

The site is not chosen occasionally, according to the elders; at this site about 11 thousand warriors were buried: the Erzya, the Mari, the Chuvash, and the Udmurts after the fight with the Nogaians.

The common grave is made as a barrow, under the barrow there is a stone sarcophagus with the remains.

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