What is "valerik"

Valerik may refer to:

• Valerik River, a river in the Chechen Republic, Russia
• Battle of the Valerik River, 1840 battle fought at this river
• Valerik (poem), Mikhail Lermontov's poem about this battle
• Valerik (rural locality), a rural locality (a selo) in the Chechen Republic, Russia

"Valerik" is a war poem published in 1843 by the Russian Romantic writer Mikhail Lermontov.