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Tsvetan Sokolov

Bulgarian volleyball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ1308455 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tsvetan Nikolaev Sokolov (Bulgarian: Цветан Николаев Соколов; born 31 December 1989) is a Bulgarian professional volleyball player who plays as an opposite spiker for Halkbank Ankara. Sokolov is a former member of the Bulgaria national team, a participant in the Olympic Games London 2012, and a multiple winner of the CEV Champions League and Club World Championship.

Personal life

Sokolov was born in Dupnitsa, Bulgaria. In 2014, he married Deliyana Hristova. On 27 October 2014, his wife gave birth to their children – twins Nikola and Viktor.

Editorial summary

“Tsvetan Sokolov” enters the record as bulgarian volleyball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tsvetan, Sokolov and Bulgarian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 2012, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989-12-31. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tsvetan, Sokolov and Bulgarian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Tsvetan Sokolov” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tsvetan, Sokolov and Bulgarian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1308455. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989, 2012 and 2014.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tsvetan Sokolov” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.