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Sorokin
Sorokin (russian: Соро́кин), or Sorokina (feminine; Соро́кина), is a common Russian surname, derived from the Russian word ''soroka'' (сорока, or magpie). Those bearing it include the following: * Aleksei Sorokin, Estonian politician * Alexey Sorokin (fashion designer), fashion designer * Alexey Sorokin (military commander), Admiral and Hero of the Soviet Union * Anastasia Sorokina, Belarusian/Australian chess Woman International Master * Anna Sorokin, Russian fraud perpetrator * Coti Sorokin, Argentine singer-songwriter * Evgraf Sorokin, painter * Ilya Sorokin, NHL goalie under contract with the New York Islanders * Irina Sorokina, Russian-Norwegian laser physicist * Ivan Sorokin, Russian commander during the Russian Civil War * Maxim Sorokin, Russian chess player ( grandmaster) * Natalie Sorokin, French woman known for her affairs with Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre * Nikolai Sorokin, Russian theatre and film actor, theatre director, ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Sorokin
Anna Sorokin (russian: Анна Сорокина; born January 23, 1991), also known as Anna Delvey, is a con artist and fraudster who posed as a wealthy heiress to access the upper echelons of the New York social and art scenes from 2013 to 2017. Born to working-class parents in the Soviet Union (now Russia), Sorokin emigrated from Russia to Germany with her family at the age of sixteen in 2007. In 2011, she left Germany to live in London and Paris before relocating to New York City in 2013, where she interned for the French fashion magazine ''Purple.'' Sorokin conceived of a private members' club and arts foundation, which included leasing a large building to feature pop-up shops and exhibitions by notable artists she met while interning. She later created fake financial documents to substantiate her claims of having a multimillion-euro trust fund, and forged multiple wire transfer confirmations. Sorokin used these documents, as well as fraudulent checks, to trick banks, acq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitirim Sorokin
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin (; russian: Питири́м Алекса́ндрович Соро́кин; – 10 February 1968) was a Russian American sociologist and political activist, who contributed to the social cycle theory. Background Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin was born on , in Turya, a small village in Yarensky Uyezd, Vologda Governorate, Russian Empire (now Knyazhpogostsky District, Komi Republic, Russia), the second son to a Russian father and Komi mother. Sorokin's father, Alexander Prokopievich Sorokin, was from Veliky Ustyug and a traveling craftsman specializing in gold and silver. At the same time, while his mother, Pelageya Vasilievna, was a native of Zheshart and belonged to a peasant family. Vasily, his elder brother, was born in 1885, and his younger brother, Prokopy, was born in 1893. Sorokin's mother died on March 7, 1894, in the village of Kokvitsa. After her death Sorokin and his elder brother Vasily stayed with their father, traveling with him throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Sorokin
Vladimir Georgiyevich Sorokin (russian: link=no, Влади́мир Гео́ргиевич Соро́кин; born 7 August 1955) is a contemporary postmodern Russian writer and dramatist. He has been described as one of the most popular writers in modern Russian literature. Biography Sorokin was born on 7 August 1955 in Bykovo, Moscow Oblast, near Moscow. In 1972, he made his literary debut with a publication in the newspaper ''Za kadry neftyanikov'' (russian: link=no, За кадры нефтяников, ''For the workers in the petroleum industry''). He studied at the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas in Moscow and graduated in 1977 as an engineer. After graduation, he worked for one year for the magazine ''Shift'' (russian: link=no, Смена, Smena), before he had to leave due to his refusal to become a member of the Komsomol. Throughout the 1970s, Sorokin participated in a number of art exhibitions and designed and illustrated nearly 50 books. Sorokin's de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilya Sorokin
Ilya Igorevich Sorokin (russian: Илья Игоревич Сорокин; born 4 August 1995) is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). Sorokin was selected by the Islanders in the third round (78th overall) of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft. Playing career KHL (2012–2020) Sorokin played as a youth with local club, Vympel Mezhdurechensk, before joining KHL club Metallurg Novokuznetsk as a 17-year old in 2012. He made his professional and KHL debut with Novokuznetsk during the following 2012–13 season, appearing in relief during a 8–6 defeat to Barys Astana on 7 January 2013. Following two promising seasons, Sorokin was selected by the New York Islanders, 78th overall, in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft. During his third year within Metallurg Novokuznetsk in the 2014–15 season, Sorokin appeared in 22 games before he was traded to perennial powerhouse club, HC CSKA Moscow, in exchange for financial compensation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Sorokin
Ivan Lukich Sorokin (4 December 1884 - 3 November 1918) was a Russian military leader and participant in the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, and the Russian Civil War. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army of the North Caucasus and Commander of the 11th Red Army. Working his way up through the ranks, he was eventually commissioned as an officer. Sorokin arranged the execution of his rival commander, Ivan Matveyev, on 7 October 1918. Following the execution, Sorokin established a reign of terror that demoralized the Red armies in the North Caucasus, which caused him to be declared a traitor on 27 October. He was subsequently assassinated on 2 November 1918.Peter Kenez, ''Red Attack, White Resistance'', p. 188. Biography Early life and education A cossack from the Kuban region, Sorokin graduated from the Yekaterinodar military paramedic school and became a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party in April 1917. First World War During the First World War he served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Sorokin
Nikolai Evgenievich Sorokin (russian: Николай Евгеньевич Сорокин; February 15, 1952 – March 26, 2013) was a Russian theatre and film actor, theatre director, educator, and People's Artist of Russia (1999). He was artistic director of the Rostov-on-Don academic drama theatre of a name Maxim Gorky and a deputy of the State Duma of the 3rd convocation. Biography Nikolai Sorokin was born on February 15, 1952, in the Hutor Cossack Vesyolovsky District of Rostov Region, Russian's territory. In 1975 he graduated from the Rostov art school (teacher of actor skill People's Artist of the USSR Mikhail Bushnov) and went to work in the Rostov drama theatre. In 1984, Nikolai studied in Moscow, he graduated from the actor faculty of GITIS (teacher of actor skill People's Artist of the USSR Elina Bystritskaya). In 1996, Nikolai Sorokin was appointed artistic director of the Rostov academic drama theatre of a name Maxim Gorky. From 1999 to 2003 — Deputy of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexey Sorokin (military Commander)
Alexey Ivanovich Sorokin (russian: Алексе́й Ива́нович Соро́кин) (28 March 1922 – 4 March 2020) was a Soviet Fleet Admiral and member of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union. Sorokin was born one of five children. His father, a veteran invalid of the Russian Civil War, died in 1933 and his brother, Seraphim, was reported as missing in action at the front near Moscow in March 1942. Sorokin joined the Red Army in 1941 and served as a mortar operator. He was promoted to lieutenant, commanding a mortar battery and fought during the liberation of Belarus and with the Baltic Front. After the war, Sorokin served as a political officer and studied at the Lenin Military-Political Academy between 1948 and 1952. After graduating Sorokin was posted to the Navy and served as a political officer on the destroyers ''Redkiy'' and ''Vdumchevy'' of the Soviet Pacific Fleet. In 1954 he became political officer aboard the cruiser ''Kalinin''. In 1956 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anastasia Sorokina
Anastasia Sorokina ( be, Анастасія Сарокіна; born 26 January 1980 in Minsk, Soviet Union) is a Belarusian chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 2001 and is an International Arbiter (2002) and FIDE Trainer (2005). Chess career Sorokina won the Belarus Girls' Chess Championship in her age group eight times (in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 2000). She came second in the Belarus Women's Chess Championship in 1998. Sorokina represented Belarus in two Chess Olympiads in Yerevan 1996, and Elista 1998. She represented Australia in the 36th Chess Olympiad in Calvià 2004. Her best result was in 1998 when she scored 5.5/9 for Belarus on the reserve board. She has been an arbiter for the Chess Olympiads in Bled 2002, Istanbul 2012, a number of FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13 events, as well as several other major FIDE tournaments. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evgraf Sorokin
Evgraf Semenovich Sorokin, or Yevgraf Semyonovich Sorokin (russian: Евгра́ф Семёнович Соро́кин; 18 December 1821, Nekrasovskoye (Bolshie Soli) – 1892, Moscow) was a Russian artist and teacher; known for historical, religious and genre paintings. Biography His first exposure to art came from an icon painter in Yaroslavl. After a period of apprenticeship, a local priest who liked his work suggested that he create a painting of Peter the Great discovering the artist, Andrey Matveyev, for an upcoming visit by Tsar Nicholas I.Brief biography @ RusArtNet. This painting was presented to the Tsar, who was sufficiently impressed to issue an order that Sorokin should study at the |
Alexey Sorokin (fashion Designer)
Alexey Sorokin (born 29 November 1983) is a Russian fashion designer of womenswear label ''Homo Consommatus''. Education In 2008, the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design housed the designer's final graduation collection. Its main idea was consumerism and the 'wrapping of a person' as means of identification and self-defense. Career Two years after the graduation Sorokin set up luxury womenswear label Homo Consommatus, which is Latin for "consuming person". In October 2011, the Homo Consommatus womenswear Spring/Summer 2012 collection debuted at Aurora Fashion Week Russia supported by LMA Presents - local project for emerging designers. Alexey subsequently showed his Autumn/Winter 2012-13 collection at Aurora Fashion Week Russia. These collections received notable praise in the European press from L'Officiel, InStyle and Grazia (Italy), among others. In September 2012 Alexey Sorokin brought his luxurious and intellectual label to New York Fashion Week to p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Sorokina
Irina T. Sorokina (born 1963) is a Russian laser physicist. She works in Norway as a professor of physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and is the founder and CEO of spin-off company ATLA Lasers AS. Education and career Sorokina was born in Moscow in 1963. Her father was a physicist who worked on the detection of the cosmic microwave background in the early 1950s and by the 1960s had moved to nonlinear optics and lasers; inspired by him, Sorokina says that she "fell in love with physics, and optics in particular" by the age of 5 or 6. After earning a master's degree in physics and mathematics at Moscow State University, Sorokina completed a Ph.D. through the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1992. In 2003 she earned a habilitation at TU Wien in Austria. She was affiliated with TU Wien as a researcher and lecturer from 1991 until 2007, when she moved to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Recognition Sorokina was elected to the 2007 class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksei Sorokin (politician)
Aleksei Sorokin (; 17 March 1888, Tallinn – 1 April 1933, Tallinn) was an Estonian lawyer and politician. He was regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Russian minority in Estonia during the interwar period. Life Sorokin was born into a Russian-speaking family in Tallinn. He attended the Grammar School of Emperor Nikolai I (today Gustav Adolf Grammar School). In 1912, he graduated with a degree in jurisprudence from Saint Petersburg State University. From 1912 to 1914, he worked at the District Court of Tallinn. From 1914, he worked as a lawyer and defense lawyer and as a legal adviser to authorities in Tallinn. With the declaration of independence of Estonia in 1918, Sorokin went into politics. At the end of 1918, he founded the "Provisional Russian Council of Estonia" (Estonian: Eesti Ajutine Vene Nõukogu) with like-minded people, representing the Russians living in Estonia. In the Provisional Government of Prime Minister Konstantin Päts, he represented as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
