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Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
About Mikhail Sado
- Mikhail Yukhanovich Sado (Russian: ?????? ???????? ????, Syriac: ??????? ??? ???? Mixael bit Sahda), (June 9, 1934 – August 30, 2010 ) was an Assyrian Russian linguist, scholar, Professor of Semitic languages, orientalist, politician, former paratrooper, and wrestling champion.Mikhail Sado was born on June 9, 1934 in Leningrad.
- He was a linguist of Semitic languages and was fluent in many other Assyrian dialects.
- He taught Hebrew in Russian Orthodox seminaries.
- He obtained his doctorates in Oriental Studies at Leningrad University in 1951.Sado was one of four principal leaders who established the Russian Social Christian Union for the Liberation of Peoples.
- He spent thirteen years (1967–1980) in prison during the Soviet Union because of his religious activism.Mikhail Sado’s origin goes back to Hakkari, a village of Levon north of Tiari.
- His father was Challo and his mother Mariam.
- His wife Zina was born in Moscow.
- She was one year old when her family was forced to leave the USSR for Iran under Stalin’s order.
- She was raised in Iran and returned to the Soviet Union in 1962. The Sados have two sons; his youngest son Rabban Estepanos, is the presiding priest of the oldest Russian Orthodox Church in St.
- Petersburg, Cathedral of The Holy Trinity of St.
- Alexander Nevsky Monastery built in 1703–1714.
- During Soviet rule, the government buried many communists in the gardens of this monastery to desecrate the Christian faith.
- This church is the seat of the metropolitan of St.
- Petersburg. Rabban Estepanos speaks Assyrian fluently.
- He assisted his father in publishing a book in Russian on the life and accomplishments of the prominent Assyrians in the Soviet Union.
- Mikhail Sado’s older son (a transportation business owner) funded this publication. Sixty Assyrians in Leningrad were killed under Joseph Stalin's order.
- A memorial monument in their remembrance was erected in St.
- Petersburg on August 27, 2000.
- More than 1,000 Assyrians in the entire Soviet Union were killed under Stalin’s order.
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