Mordovia is the only republic in which the national library is named after Pushkin, and not a national writer

The Free Nations League reports on this.

Libraries in other territories of the indigenous peoples of Russia are also named after various Russian writers and even after Russian generals: in the Altai Territory, Amur region, Arkhangelsk region, Astrakhan region, Volgograd region, Voronezh region, Zabaikalsky Territory, Sverdlovsk region, Irkutsk region, Perm Territory, Primorsky Territory, Penza region, Orenburg region, Omsk region, Nizhny Novgorod region, Magadan region, Kurgan region, Kamchatka Territory, Kemerovo region, Khabarovsk Territory and several other regions. However, all of these territories have been “denazified” by Moscow — they are not considered specific national territories, although they are ethnic lands for dozens of peoples. Thus, among all the regions with the status of a national republic, only in Mordovia  the name of the main republican library is connected to the foreign writer, while in all the other republics the libraries are named either after national figures or are simply called “national library of the republic”.