Mikhail Yukhanovich Sado (Russian: Михаил Юханович Садо, Syriac: ܡܝܟ݂ܐܝܠ ܒܝܬ ܣܗܕܐ Mixael bit Sahda), (June 9, 1934 – August 30, 2010 [1]) was an Assyrian Russian linguist, scholar, Professor of Semitic languages, orientalist, politician, former paratrooper, and wrestling champion.

[3] Sado was one of four principal leaders who established the Russian Social Christian Union for the Liberation of Peoples.

[2][6] Mikhail Sado's origin goes back to Hakkari, a village of Levon north of Tiari.

[6] During Soviet rule, the government buried many communists in the gardens of this monastery to desecrate the Christian faith.

He assisted his father in publishing a book in Russian on the life and accomplishments of the prominent Assyrians in the Soviet Union.