Svyatoslav Sokol

{{Short description|Russian politician (1946–2022)}}

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| name = Svyatoslav Sokol

| image = Svyatoslav Sokol.jpg

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| caption = Sokol in 2015

| birth_name = Svyatoslav Mikhailovich Sokol

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1946|03|22}}

| birth_place = Bukarava, Talachyn District, Vitebsk Oblat, Byelorussian SSR, USSR

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2022|12|03|1946|03|22}}

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| nationality = Russian

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| occupation = Editor

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| education = {{ill|Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography|ru|Московский государственный университет геодезии и картографии}}

| party = CPRF

| office = Member of the State Duma

| term_start = 24 December 2007

| term_end = 5 October 2016

| term_start1 = 17 December 1995

| term_end1 = 7 December 2003

}}

Svyatoslav Mikhailovich Sokol ({{langx|ru|Святослав Михайлович Сокол}}; 22 March 1946 – 3 December 2022) was a Russian editor and politician. A member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, he served in the State Duma from 1995 to 2003 and again from 2007 to 2016.{{cite web|url=https://kprf.ru/personal/sokol|title=Сокол Святослав Михайлович|work=Communist Party of the Russian Federation|language=Russian}}

Sokol died of a heart attack on 3 December 2022, at the age of 76.{{cite news |last=Zyuganov|first=G.A.|date=4 December 2022|title=Памяти Святослава Михайловича Сокола|trans-title= |url=https://kprf.ru/party-live/cknews/214997.html|language=Russian|work=Communist Party of the Russian Federation|location= |access-date=6 December 2022}}

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