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 language policy of the Russian federal government and the Russification of the Udmurt people.
Albert Razin was born into a peasant family in Alnashsky District of the Republic of Udmurtia.
Together with other activists, he issued numerous formal protests against the Russification policies of the federal government, such as the cancellation of obligatory teaching of minority languages at schools.
Razin was brought to a hospital in a critical condition, with burns to nearly 100 percent of his body, and died several hours later.
Linguistic rights activists from several regions of Russia (Chuvashia, Bashkortostan and others) as well as academics and officials from Finland and Estonia[3] and Human Rights Watch[4] expressed their solidarity with Razin's demands.