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Also known as Albert Alexeyevich Razin

Russian ethnographer and Udmurt language activist

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Type
Group
Origin
Canada
Active from
1998-06-15
Active to
2003-09-20

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Key facts

Born
( 1940-06-12 ) 12 June 1940, Kuzyumovo, Udmurt ASSR , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
Died
10 September 2019 (2019-09-10) (aged 79), Izhevsk , Udmurtia , Russia
Cause of death
Burns from self-immolation
Occupations
Neopaganist , Udmurt language rights activist, sociologist, ethnographer
Awards
Honorary citizen of the Alnashsky District;, Trokay Borisov Award;, Honorary scientist of the Republic of Udmurtia

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Encyclopedic overview

Albert Alexeyevich Razin (Udmurt: Альберт Алексеевич Разин, 12 June 1940 – 10 September 2019) was an Udmurt language rights activist and Neopaganist who committed traditional self-immolation (tipshar) in the centre of Izhevsk as an act of protest against the adoption of a bill on the voluntary study of the national languages of native peoples, which would allow Udmurt schoolchildren to choose for themselves which language to study, but could lead to a decrease in the number of speakers of the Udmurt language.

Biography

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