Background
Vladimir Dmitrievich Sokolov was born in 1913 in Oryol, Russian Federation.
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Vladimir Dmitrievich Sokolov
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Education
Vladimir Dmitrievich graduated from the Pedagogical Institute, taught Russian language and literature in high school and college.
Career
In the summer of 1942, Vladimir Dmitrievich returned to Oryol. He was an employee of the local newspaper Rech. In 1943 he was evacuated to the West. After the war ended, in the British zone of German occupation, Vladimir Dmitrievich was deputy chief editor of the journal Sowing (1949-1951). Since 1951 he lived in the United States of America. Vladimir Dmitrievich worked at the publishing house named after A.P. Chekhov (New York, 1952-1956). Then he was a professor at Yale University. Actively published in the western Russian-language press.
Vladimir Dmitrievich was the author of several books published abroad, and also he made many publications in the western Russian-language press, such as Grani, Sowing, Renaissance, Contemporary, Abroad, and Orthodox Russia.
