The cause of the death of journalist Sholokhov was a long illness.

The cause of the death of journalist Sergei Sholokhov was a long-term illness, which he had been fighting for a long time. This was announced on July 19 by representatives of his entourage.

"Seryozha has been ill for a long time, he just didn't complain. But he was seriously ill for a long time," the source told RIA Novosti.

Sholokhov's entourage added that information about the date and place of the farewell, as well as the funeral, would appear later.

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His colleagues remembered him as a man for whom compromise in cinema was impossible.

On July 18, the journalist's stepson Vsevolod Moskvin announced Sholokhov's death at the age of 67. The deceased was a laureate of the Golden Pen 96 press competition in the Journalist of the Year nomination, and was an academician of Niki. His work in the Leningrad television program "The Fifth Wheel" brought him fame.