Yegor Aslanov

Yegor Pavlovich Aslanov (: Ыегор Павлович Асланов; November 17, 1921 – August 5, 2003) was a Galvian and Zemaki novelist. He became known in Galvia as the author of This is what it feels like (Zemaki: Вот как это ощущается; Varasitija, from 1972), a non-fiction book written in Zemaki and translated into Galvian comprising over 200 short stories of different people living in Greater Zemakija.

Originally a graduate with a degree in Chemistry from the Kaudze School of Sciences and Technology in 1944, Aslanov became quickly involved with politics after being made aware of the differences in lifestyle between his hometown region and the rest of Galvia. He moved to the Galvian capital city of Antonija where he worked as a chemist while simultaneously attending Literary School. He graduated with a degree in Letters and Language in 1952, and published his first book, The Other Side (Galvian: Otra puse) in November of 1945. The story wasn't particularly well received among the Galvic population, who made up the largest ethnic group in the city, which quickly forced Aslanov back into Greater Zemakija. He moved to Varasitija, Rozežjosla in 1954, where he continued his political writing and activism.

He was censored multiple times for publishing books on the Second and Third World Wars, the Autumn Riots, the discrimination toward the and Zemaki population, as well as critiques toward the Royal Family of Galvia. He organized several marches and parades in majority-Galvic cities, including the country's capital, as a way of protest and celebration, many of which ended up with him arrested, sometimes for several days or weeks. He continued to publish books throughout the 60s, during which he put out two of his most famous works: The Wall West of Antonija (1965), and One Third (1968). Throughout the 70s and 80s he became more involved in politics, requesting and having audiences in Parliament and with Queen Margrieta II. He was married to fellow Zemaki political activist, and former member of parliament, Gaļina Ermolaj with whom he had three daughters.

Aslanov died of in 2003 at the age of 81. A year later Parliament passed Aslanov Law, named in his honor, meant to better the quality of life of ethnic minorities in the country, particularly Zemaks. He is regarded as one of the most impactful political figures in Galvian history, and in 2006 his face was added to the 50₶ bill.

Early life
Yegor Pavlovich Aslanov (: Ыегор Павлович Асланов) was born on 17 November 1921 in Yugzamok, the capital city of the kingdom of Zemakija. His mother, Aleksándra Vladimirovna Ilyin (Алекса́ндра Владимировна Ильин), was a and  born into a wealthy family in the kingdom of Cietoķsni, who moved with his husband Pavel Kirilovich Aslanov (Па́вел Кириллович Асланов), a Zemaki-Tretuish, to his native town of Yugzamok in 1915, right after the end of World War I. In 1917, Pavel landed a job as a Tretuish-Galvian-Zeamaki translator for the regional government, which put the family in a comfortable position financially for most of Yegor's childhood and teenage years. He attended primary and secondary school at the Academic Institute of Yugzamok, an all-boys boarding school for Zemaki children of the upper-middle class, where he was ranked #3 in his year after graduation.

Because he grew up speaking three languages, at age 17 he was approved for an internship at the Delegation of Foreign Affairs of the kingdom of Lietus in the city of Kaudze to work as a Tretuish-Zemaki translator. He moved to Kaudze the following year, where he started to work at the Delegation, and enrolled at Kaudze School of Sciences and Technology under a Chemistry major while living in-campus.

Education and political involvement
Aslanov started his first year at the Kaudze School of Sciences and Technology at the age of 17 in August of 1939. Despite the ongoing world war, he managed to graduate with a PhD in Chemistry on May of 1944 at 22 years old. During these four years he became deeply politically involved due to Galvia's further integration into the war, the rising of pro-Renesian sentiment in the city of Kaudze, where he was living and studying, and the increase in demand of Tretuish speakers across the country as the government moved to recognize Tretland as a state. While enrolled in university, he was summoned by the Delegation of Foreign Affairs of Lietus on numerous occasions to the cities of Uzkrājumi and Ziemeļumežs to assist Tretuish families entering Galvia to escape the war in neighbouring Ecoralia.