Oleksa Hirnyk

Oleksa Mykolayovych Hirnyk (; 28 March 1912 – 21 January 1978) was a Ukrainian nationalist and Soviet dissident, an engineer by profession, who burned himself to death as an act of protest against Soviet suppression of the Ukrainian language (russification), culture and history. The act was quickly covered up by the Soviet authorities and remained unknown to general populace for decades.

As part of the derussification campaign that swept through Ukraine following the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Suzdal Street in (Ukraine's capital) Kyiv was renamed Oleksa Hirnyk Street on 23 March 2023.