Boris Sokolov (other)
Boris Sokolov may refer to: * Boris Sergeyevich Sokolov (1914–2013), Russian geologist, paleontologist and academician * Boris Vadimovich Sokolov (born 1957), historian and Russian literature researcher * Boris Sokolov (1944–2022), Russian actor in ''The Hobbit'' (1985 film) * Boris Sokoloff Boris Sokoloff (1889–1979) was a Russian Empire and later French politician, medical doctor, soldier, cancer researcher, and author. Political career After graduating from the University of St. Petersburg, Sokoloff helped draft the All-Russian C ...

Boris Sergeyevich Sokolov
Boris Sergeyevich Sokolov (russian: Борис Серге́евич Соколов) (April 9, 1914 – September 2, 2013) was a Russian geologist and paleontologist. Sokolov authored reference works on the stratigraphy of Eastern Europe, in particular the fossil coral records, and created the concept of ''Vendian period'', currently recognized as largely overlapping, but not fully equivalent to Ediacaran. Biography Sokolov, the son of a village feldsher (medic), was born in Vyshny Volochyok. In 1931 he moved to Saint Petersburg, Leningrad and became an apprentice electrician. A blue-collar work experience was a prerequisite for admission into the university. After a year of work Sokolov was allowed to enroll at the Department of Geology and Soil Sciences of Saint Petersburg State University, Leningrad University. He graduated with honors in 1937 and remained there to take a course of postgraduate studies. Sokolov's early work concentrated on the stratigraphy of the Baltic Shield, R ...
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Boris Vadimovich Sokolov
Boris Sokolov (russian: Бори́с Вади́мович Соколо́в; born January 2, 1957, in Moscow), is a historian and a Russian literature researcher (he a has Candidate of Science degree in History and Habilitat Doctor of Science in Philology). In 1979 he graduated from the department of geography of the Moscow State University, specialising in economic geography. His works have been translated into Japanese, Polish, Latvian and Estonian. He has also translated literary works from various languages. During Soviet times, he worked at the Institute of World Literature. Subsequently, he served as a professor of social anthropology at Russian State Social University. In September 2008 he had to resign under pressure of the Administration of then-President Dmitrij Medvedev. After publishing the article 'Did Saakashvili lose?', he wrote numerous monographs, e.g. on Gogol, Sergei Esenin, and Mikhail Bulgakov (Sokolov was the author of the ''Bulgakov Encyclopedia'', publish ...
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Boris Sokolov (actor)
Boris Sokolov may refer to: * Boris Sergeyevich Sokolov (1914–2013), Russian geologist, paleontologist and academician * Boris Vadimovich Sokolov (born 1957), historian and Russian literature researcher * Boris Sokolov (1944–2022), Russian actor in ''The Hobbit'' (1985 film) * Boris Sokoloff Boris Sokoloff (1889–1979) was a Russian Empire and later French politician, medical doctor, soldier, cancer researcher, and author. Political career After graduating from the University of St. Petersburg, Sokoloff helped draft the All-Russian C ...

The Hobbit (1985 Film)
''The Hobbit'' (, full title ''The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit, Across the Wild Land, Through the Dark Forest, Beyond the Misty Mountains. There and Back Again''; ) is a 1985 Soviet television play, being a loose adaption of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 book ''The Hobbit'' by Vladimir Latyshev. The play featured Zinovy Gerdt as "the professor" (a narrator stand-in for Tolkien), as Bilbo Baggins, Anatoly Ravikovich as Thorin Oakenshield and Igor Dmitriev as Gollum. Smaug and the Mirkwood spiders were portrayed by puppets. Missing in this version are the trolls, Elrond, Beorn and the wood-elves. The goblins are human-like with little makeup, and were portrayed by dancers from the Leningrad State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, as are the inhabitants of Lake Town. The play was shot in 1984 as a teleplay and produced in the framework of the children's TV series ''Tale after Tale'' (''russian: Сказка за сказкой'') aired at the Leningrad TV Chann ...
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