an urban-type settlement and the administrative center of Chamzinka Raion, Mordovian ASSR. Chamzinka has a railroad station on the Krasnyi Uzel–Kanash line, 44 km northeast of the city of Saransk. Industry is represented by the Avtozapchast’ Plant, a butter factory, and a bulb-base shop of the Svetotekhnika Saransk Production Association. The settlement also has a poultry farm and a people’s amateur theater.