Background
Naum (real name Shafir) Adolfovich Sokolov was born on November 4, 1886, in Volgograd, Russian Federation.
Naum (real name Shafir) Adolfovich Sokolov was born on November 4, 1886, in Volgograd, Russian Federation.
Naum Adolfovich began his creative activity in 1903. In the years 1925-1926, he worked in Voronezh Drama Theater, where he mainly performed hero-lover. He worked in theaters in Baku, Tashkent, Kuibyshev, Odessa, Moscow, and other cities. Since 1940 at the Stalingrad Drama theater.
Among the roles of different periods: Lenin (Kremlin Chimes by Nikolai Fedorovich Pogodin), Fedya Protasov (The Living Corpse by Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy), Voynitsky, Vershinin (Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov), Podkolesin (Marriage by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol), Wurm (Cunning and Love by Friedrich Schiller), Othello (play by William Shakespeare), Benny Creek (Sunset by Isaac Emanuelovich Babel) and others.
At Ukrainian film studios, he starred in the films Duma about the Cossack Golota, Desperate Head, and Bogdan Khmelnitsky.
Naum Adolfovich Sokolov was married to Margarita Gorbatova (Honored actress of RSFSR). Their daughter is an actress of the Volgograd Drama Theater - Maria Sokolova, and their granddaughter, Moscow actress - Ekaterina Goltyapina.
