Yoshkar-Ola

Yoshkar-Ola (Finn. officially Joskarola, sometimes colloquially Punakaupunki) is a Uralican city, former capital of the historical region of Mari-El and current seat of the Uralican county of the same name. It is also the location of the Mari Tribal Board head office, and the birthplace of Uralican hockey superstar Matvey Kolpakov.

Culture
Recently-annexed, Yoshkar-Ola was one of the hardest-hit cities by the Uralic Purges during Great War III. In spite of this, the Mari people have formed the ethnic majority in the city and surrounding area since the beginning of the Robertian Era, and after said Purges, and later the Three-Day Revolution, the vast majority of the Mari not in Mari El (some estimates even suggest the number is 100%) moved towards the Komi areas to the northeast of Mari El, and would be a huge factor in the formation of Uralica in March 2009.

In the meantime, there was strong pro-Uralican sentiment within Yoshkar-Ola and the Mari El area on the whole. After the formation of Uralica, the Russian supremacists that had caused the Purges had all but fled the area, into the more predominantly Russian west. Over a year and a half later, Yoshkar-Ola was finally annexed by Uralica, and a census was taken. The population is very heavily Mari (~82.5% thanks to the return of diasporic Maris to the region) with Russians, Chuvash, Udmurts, and Estonians having a sizable minority.

Sport
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