Background
Mitta was born in Bolshiye Arabosy (Большие Арабуси) 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.
Mitta was born in Bolshiye Arabosy (Большие Арабуси) 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 (Ульяновский чувашский педагогический техникум) 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 Паянхи сас. In 1937 he was arrested.
In 1955-1957 he worked in the literary journal Tăvan Atăl (Тӑван Атӑл).
Memorial Plaque (Cheboksary)
Flowers at the memorial plaque of Vasil Mitta
Chuvashia. Literary section.
