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Sergei Anatolyevich Sokurov (Russian: Сергей Анатольевич Сокуров, born 9 April 1940) is a Russian writer and journalist.
Sergey 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. At the same time he wrote works of fiction, poetry and journalism, whichwere included in 29 of his books published in Lvov and Moscow in 1975 – 2019. The main of them are “Stone Sea”, “Sign of the Pure Sun”,“Black Hussar”, “Istoriada”.
His works alsowerepublished in the newspapers“Izvestia”, “Literary Newspaper”, “Soviet Culture”, “The New Medical Gazette” and in the 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 Lvov.Now Sokurov lives near Moscow.