Syreś Boläeń (born ''Alexander Grigorievich Bolkin)'' is a Ukrainian public figure, poet, translator, co-founder of the Free Idel Ural Movement and a leader of the Erzya National Movement, having been given the title of (a title for Erzya leaders since the 13th century), due to his election to the rank within the Movement. He took part in

Euromaidan Euromaidan ( ; , , ), or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of Political demonstration, demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyiv. The p ...

in Ukraine, is against the

Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...

and fought on the Ukrainian side. He was born in a mixed Erzya–

Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...

family. Boläeń's mother is an ethnic Russian while his father is an ethnic Erzya.

References

1958 births Living people People from Saransk Erzyas Erzyan-language writers Indigenous activists of Europe {{Indigenous-activist-stub