Aleksandr Zalizczy

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### Known for

Founding father of Salva, Salvanian Revolution

**Aleksandr Romuald Zalizczy** was a Polish-Salvanian politician and revolutionary who designed the Zalizczy Tricolor, the official flag of Salva. He is best known for his role in founding the Republic of Salva and its subsequent secession from the Iranian State in August of 1997. Zalizczy died on September 19th, 2012 at the age of 43, after a battle with lung cancer.

## Personal life

### Early Life and Career

Zalizczy was born on December 3rd, 1968 in the city of Wrocław in the Polish People's Republic. He spent his early childhood in the town of Oława before relocating to the city of Kraków, where he graduated from high school. When Zalizczy turned 18, he moved to Moscow, where he lived and worked until he was 20.

### Salvanian Revolution

In 1989, Zalizczy again relocated to Rosengrad, (modern day Szotoprona), before becoming active in local politics and the anti-Soviet occupation movement. In the early 1990s, he became a prominent voice in the movement for independence from the Soviet Union. In late 1992, following the collapse of the Soviet Union and control of Salva by the Iranian State, Zalizczy was arrested by the Iranian Government and charged with treason and conspiracy against the state, after he made an anti-Iranian government speech calling for independence. He was imprisoned for three years before his trial was overturned.

In 1995, Zalizczy was released from prison and began secretly designing the Zalizczy Flag. Zalizczy first displayed the Zalizczy flag in public on June 4th, 1996, at an independence rally with fellow revolutionaries Joseph Niblisima, Marco Cazimir, and human rights activist Uchee J. Anu. The Zalizczy flag incorporated a tricolor band of blue, white and red, with the blue representing the strength of the Salvanian people, the white representing the snowy Caucasus mountains, and the red representing the "flames of the revolution" in Salva, as described by Zalizczy in a public interview in 1998.

Following the death of Marco Cazimir in November of 1996, Zalizczy and other co-founders of Salva agreed to formally organize a declaration of independence on August 1st, 1996, before they issued the declaration a year later on August 10th, 1997, establishing the Republic of Salva as a self-governing entity. Asiman Hajiyev, the successor to Marco Cazimir as Freedom Party leader, officially gave a speech declaring independence from the Iranian State on August 10th, 1997, in front of the Zalizczy Flag. In the same year the Republic of Salva was officially created, Salva was recognized by the United States and many other countries as a democratic nation in the region, showing "promise and hope" for the region, as stated by U.S. President Taylor A. Pearson in a public address in December of 1997.

Zalizczy was awarded His Excellence title in 1999 by President Asiman Hajiyev for his duties in establishing the nation.

## Death

On September 19th, 2012, Zalizczy died at the age of 43 after a battle with lung cancer. Zalizczy's body was taken to the Hall of Saviors on Čilov Island, where a state funeral was held in his honor. All senators and major leaders of Salva, including Asiman Hajiyev attended the ceremony. A statue of Zalizczy was later erected in the center of Szotoprona in January of 2013. Then Szotoprona mayor Aslan Vasilievich released a statement which acknowledged Zalizczy's "pride, enthusiasm and unbelievable patriotism" which led to the foundation of the nation, and praised him for creating the Zalizcy flag.

Zalizczy was buried at the Čilov National Cemetery, and his funeral was the largest in history of the nation.

Following Zalizczy's death, then-President Azad Gasimov declared a one week national mourning period, and ordered all flags to be flown at half-mast. In a statement on the funeral, the president praised Zalizczy as a "true patriot" and a "hero", and stated that his death would be felt "extremely hard" by the nation. Gasimov later stated in an interview in 2014 with the Salvanian News Network that Zalizczy's death was a "great loss" to the nation, and that he would be remembered as a "forefather of the Salvanian nation".