# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oleg-sokolov
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:20:59.550Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oleg-sokolov"
name: "Oleg Sokolov"
slug: "oleg-sokolov"
description: "Oleg Valeryevich Sokolov is a Russian convicted murderer and former historian who specialized in the Napoleonic era. In November 2019, he murdered, then subsequently dismembered and decapitated his 24-year-old mistress and former student Anastasia Yeshchenko. In December 2020, he was found guilty of intentional murder and sentenced to 12.5 years in high-security prison. He was an associate professor (docent) in history at Saint Petersburg State University until his dismissal."
tagline: "Russian military historian, reenactor and convicted murderer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2018-02-11_Oleg_Sokolov_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B5%CC%81%D0%B3_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%CC%81%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%CC%81%D0%B2_02_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-07-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.270396
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "اوليج سوكولوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Алег Валер’евіч Сакалоў"
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    title: "Oleg Sokolov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Walerjewitsch_Sokolow"
    title: "Oleg Walerjewitsch Sokolow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Sokolov"
    title: "Oleg Sokolov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Oleg Sokolov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اولگ سوکولوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Oleg Sokolov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Oleg Sokołow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Соколов, Олег Валерьевич"
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    title: "Соколов Олег Валерійович"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump