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Sokolov 

the name of two brothers who were Soviet folklor-ists and literary scholars. Boris Matveevich Sokolov was born Apr. 8 (20), 1889, in the city of Nezhin, in what is now Chernigov Oblast, and died July 30, 1930, in Moscow. Iurii Matveevich Sokolov was born Apr. 8 (20), 1889, in the city of Nezhin, and died Jan. 15,1941, in Kiev.

The Sokolov brothers began collecting scholarly materials and researching Russian folklore while still students at Moscow University, from which they graduated in 1911. They obtained important materials on several trips to Novgorod Province and subsequently published them in the book Folktales and Songs of the Beloozero Region (1915). From 1926 to 1928 they followed the routes traveled by A. F. Gil’ferding and P. N. Rybnikov. In the book The Poetry of the Countryside (1926), the Sokolovs generalized their experiences collecting scholarly materials and the methodology of studying folklore.

B. M. Sokolov is best known for his research on specific themes in byliny (epic folksongs) and historical songs. He did a great deal of work in ethnography and museology.

I. M. Sokolov wrote theoretical works on the specific characteristics of folklore, the relations of folklore to literature, and problems of studying folklore, as well as the textbook Russian Folklore. He became an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR in 1939.

REFERENCES

Gofman, E., and S. Mints. “Brat’ia B. M. i Iu. M. Sokolovy.” In Onezhskie byliny. Moscow, 1948.
Korotin, E. Zhizn naroda i ego tvorchestvo. (Sobiranie i izuchenie fol’klora B. M. i lu. M. Sokolovymi). Ural’sk, 1960.
Pomerantseva, E. V. “O teoreticheskikh vzgliadakh lu. M. Sokolova.” In Ocherki istorii russkoi etnografii,fol’kloristiki, i antropologii, fase. 5. Moscow, 1971.
Sushitskii, V. A. “Spisok rabot B. M. Sokolova.” In Sbornik Nizhne-voizhskogo kraevogo muzeia. Saratov, 1932.

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Sokolov 

a city in Czechoslovakia, in the Czech Socialist Republic, West Bohemia. Population, 20,700 (1972). Situated on the Ohfe River, Sokolov is a center of the Sokolov Coal Basin.