Sergei Sokurov

Sergei Sokurov (Russian: Сергей Анатольевич Сокуров, born 9 April 1940) is a Russian writer and journalist.

Sergei Sokurov
Born	Sergey Anatolyevich Sokurov (1940-04-09) 9 April 1940 Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation	writer, novelist, journalist
Language	Russian
Period	1975 – present
Notable works	Black hussar (novel)
Children	2

Sergey Anatolyevich Sokurov was born in Siberia on 9 April 1940, his parents were teachers. He graduated from the Lvov State University, 30 years worked as a geologist in the Carpathian region.[1] At the same time he wrote works of fiction, poetry and journalism, which were included in 29 of his books published in Lviv and Moscow in 1975 – 2019. The main of them are “Stone Sea”, “Sign of the pure sun”,[2] “Black hussar”,[3] “Istoriada”.

His works also were published in the newspapers “Izvestia”, “Literary newspaper”, “Soviet culture”, “The New Medical Gazette” and in magazines “Young Naturalist”, “Chemistry and life”, “Bratina”.

Sokurov is a member of the Union of Russian writers. He was the founder of the Russian society named after A. Pushkin in the Carpathians, the Russian cultural center in Lviv.[4]
Now Sokurov lives near Moscow.