Valerij N. Maksimov,
Candidate Sc. {Philology}, Associate Professor,
Department of the Mari language and Literature,
Mari State University
(Yoshkar-Ola, Russia), sernur@rambler.ru
Oleg A. Sergeev,
Candidate Sc. {Philology}, Leading Research Fellow
Mari Research Institute of Language, Literature and History
(Yoshkar-Ola, Russia), olsemar@rambler.ru
