Background
Sokolov, Nikolai was born in 1903 in Rybinsk.
Sokolov, Nikolai was born in 1903 in Rybinsk.
Studied at Rybinsk Gorproletkult Art Studio, 1920-1923, and in the Graphics Faculty of the VKHUTEIN, Moscow, 1923-1929. Studied at Rybinsk Gorproletkult Art Studio, 1920-1923, and in the Graphics Faculty of the VKHUTEIN, Moscow, 1923-1929.
From 1924, member of the Kukryniksy (a trio of political artists whose other members are M. Kupriianov and P. Krylov), drawing political cartoons for newspapers and magazines. Also worked as a portrait and landscape painter. Exhibited with the Kukryniksy from 1932.
Personal exhibitions from 1932 in Moscow, Bucharest and Sofia.