Yuri Matveevich Sokolov ( 1889 - 1941 ) - Russian and Soviet folklorist and literary critic, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1939). [one]
| Yuri Matveevich Sokolov | |
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| Date of Birth | April 7 (19), 1889 |
| Place of Birth | Nizhyn Chernihiv province Russian empire |
| Date of death | January 15, 1941 (51 years old) |
| Place of death | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ; buried in Moscow |
| Citizenship |  the USSR |
| Nationality |  Russian empire |
| Occupation | , |
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| Spouse | Dynnik-Sokolova Valentina Alexandrovna |
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Biography
Born on April 7 ( April 19, according to a new style) in 1889 in Nizhyn, Chernihiv province, in the family of a professor of Russian literature of the Nizhyn Historical and Philological Institute. Prince A. A. Bezborodko - M. I. Sokolov , twin brother B. M. Sokolov .
He studied at the 10th Moscow men's gymnasium . In 1906, together with his brother, he entered the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University . Already during his studies, in 1908-1909, also with his brother, he was sent to Belozersky and Kirillovsky counties of the Novgorod province to collect folklore and ethnographic material. After graduating from university in 1911, Yuri Sokolov was left to prepare for a professorship.
Even in his student years, Sokolov conducted teaching at a number of Moscow private gymnasiums. He took part in the 1st All-Russian Congress of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature of Secondary Schools, participated in the development of programs and methods of using folklore in the school. He gave lectures and conducted practical classes and seminars on folk art and literature at the Moscow Conservatory (in 1913-1924), Moscow City People's University (in 1916-1920), the Moscow Military Pedagogical Academy (in 1920-1921), at the State Institute of Word (in 1920-1925), the Higher Literary and Art Institute. V. Ya. Bryusov (in 1923-1925), Institute of Oriental Peoples (in 1926-1930).
Since 1919, Yuri Sokolov was a privat docent and professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Moscow University , as well as a professor at the Tver Institute of Public Education (in 1919-1930). Full member of the State Academy of Art Sciences since 1922.
In 1933 he organized a folklore section at the Writers' Union.
In 1936, on the proposal of the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History, Sokolov was certified as a doctor of literary criticism without defending a dissertation.
Here in 1938 he organized the Department of Folklore, which was later transferred to Moscow University. [2]
In 1938, Yuri Matveevich was introduced to the Scientific Council of the Institute of Folklore of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
In 1939 he was elected an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR and director of the Institute of Folklore of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1939), but continued to live in Moscow in the building of the Historical Museum on Red Square, 2.
He died on January 15, 1941 in Kiev immediately after making a speech at a solemn meeting of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. [3] He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery .
Personal life
He was married to V. A. Dynnik-Sokolova (1898-1979).
Notes
- β SOKOLOV Yuri Matveevich (1889-1941)
- β History of the Department of Folklore Archived on March 4, 2016.
- β Yuri Matveevich Sokolov: Obituary