Syreś Boläeń

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 Inyazor (a title for Erzya leaders since the 13th century), due to his election to the rank within the Movement. He took part in Euromaidan in Ukraine, is against the Russian invasion of Ukraine and fought on the Ukrainian side. He was born in a mixed Erzya–Russian family. Boläeń's mother is an ethnic Russian while his father is an ethnic Erzya.