Vaà ÂlejàMitta or Vasiliy Yegorovich Mitta (, , Bolshiye Arabosy, Simbirsk, Russian Empire - ; Bolshiye Arabosy, Chuvash ASSR, USSR) was a Soviet Chuvash poet and novelist, translator, essayist and author of the literary-critical articles.
Mitta was born in Bolshiye Arabosy (ÃÂþûÃÂÃÂøõ ÃÂÃÂðñÃÂÃÂø) settlement (present-day the village of Pervomayskoye of Batyrevsky District, Chuvashia) of Buinsky Uyezd in the Simbirsk Governorate of the Russian Empire to a Chuvash peasant family.
In 1924 he entered the Ulyanovsk Chuvash Pedagogical College (ãûÃÂÃÂýþòÃÂúøù ÃÂÃÂòðÃÂÃÂúøù ÿõôðóþóøÃÂõÃÂúøù ÃÂõàýøúÃÂü) and was educated at this technical school in Ulyanovsk. Following his graduation in 1928 he began working as a teacher in several schools, before starting work in the newspaper ÃÂðÃÂýàø ÃÂðÃÂ. In 1937 he was arrested. In 1955-1957 he worked in the literary journal TÃÂvan AtÃÂl (âÃÂòðý ÃÂÃÂÃÂû).
As a child he developed an interest in the poetry of Alexander Pushkin and the stories of Nikolai Gogol. He began to write Chuvash poetry, and was first published in 1925, and continued to appear in Chuvash newspapers and magazines. His works centered around the notion of a new concept of his homeland. He also translated works of famous Russian writers and poets. He was repressed in 1937 as part of the Great Purge, finally being released in 1954. He died three years later.