| Oleg Smolin | |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Office: | Member of the State Duma for Omsk Oblast |
| Term Start: | 5 October 2016 |
| Predecessor: | Constituency established |
| Constituency: | Moskalenki (No. 140) |
| Term Start1: | 17 January 1996 |
| Term End1: | 24 December 2007 |
| Constituency1: | Omsk (No. 129) |
| Office2: | Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat) |
| Term Start2: | 24 December 2007 |
| Term End2: | 5 October 2016 |
| Birth Date: | 10 February 1952 |
| Birth Place: | Poludino, Magzhan Zhumabayev District, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union |
| Party: | CPRF |
| Nationality: | Russian |
| Alma Mater: | Omsk State Pedagogical University Ural State University |
Oleg Nikolayevich Smolin (ru|Оле́г Никола́евич Смо́лин; born 10 February 1952) is a Russian politician. He is a State Duma deputy, as a member of the Communist Party.[1] [2] He is blind, and was the vice president of the Russian Paralympic committee.[3]
He was the only member of the State Duma who voted against the recognition of the separatist Lugansk People's Republic. But he then stated that he made a mistake when casting his vote, and asked to correct the vote tally.[4]
However, he later said that he was "shocked" by the invasion and express that "military force should be used in politics only as a last resort"[5]