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Yevgen Sokolovskiy
Evgeny "Zhenya" Vladimirovich Sokolovsky (, born 7 November 1978 in Odesa), also known as Yevgen Sokolovskiy, is a Ukraine, Ukrainian Auto racing, racing driver, team manager and businessman. In 2021, Sokolovsky won the Belgian touring car championship Belcar Endurance. Sokolovsky is owner and manager of MotoGP/IDM team Vector Racing, who wins 2011 the ''Internationale Deutsche Motorradmeisterschaft'' in the 600cc Supersport class. He himself drove in the "''Vector 24-7 GP Racing''" team until 2012, when he changed to touring car racing after a break in 2018 and started in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series in 2020. Early years Evgeny Sokolovsky grew up in the Ukrainian SSR in Odesa. Evgeny came to motorsport very early through his father, the Ukrainian rally driver Wladmir Sokolovsky, and started in junior races at the age of 8. From 1995 to 2000 Evgeny studied at the ''Odesa National Economics University (now part of the Odesa National Polytechnic University)'' and graduated wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odesa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative centre of the Odesa Raion and Odesa Oblast, as well as a multiethnic cultural centre. As of January 2021 Odesa's population was approximately In classical antiquity a large Greek settlement existed at its location. The first chronicle mention of the Slavic settlement-port of Kotsiubijiv, which was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, dates back to 1415, when a ship was sent from here to Constantinople by sea. After a period of Lithuanian Grand Duchy control, the port and its surroundings became part of the domain of the Ottomans in 1529, under the name Hacibey, and remained there until the empire's defeat in the Russo-Turkish War of 1792. In 1794, the modern city of Odesa was founded by a decree of the Russian empress Catherine the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
