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Albert Razin
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Russian ethnographer and Udmurt language activist
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Albert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Kuzyumovo
- Place of death
- Izhevsk
- Occupation
- sociologist
- Educated at
- Udmurt State University
- Employer
- Udmurt State University
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Field of work
- philosophy
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- date of birth
- 1940-06-12
- date of death
- 2019-09-10
- manner of death
- Suicide
- cause of death
- self-immolation
- professorship
- docent
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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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Albert Razin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.