From 1953 — artist Dmitrov porcelain factory; has created a work — "Rysenka" (1954), "bison", "Zebra", "Giraffe", "donkey" (all — is 1957), "Brown bear" (1960), "the wolves are greedy, everyone knows" (1964); wall panels-рельефы: "feeding the deer", "fallow Deer", "North" (all — 1961), "Himalayan black bear" (1961), "Cub" (1962). Also executed a number of decorative vessels and hanging vases. Worked at the Leningrad porcelain factory (pencil "Porcupine", 1958).

Since 1923 — participated in exhibitions. Member of mosskh (SSH, MOSH). Exhibited associations: the Moscow Association of artists (1924), "Art — workers" (FU, 1927). Participated in exhibitions: drawings by contemporary Russian sculptors (1925), all-Union printing exhibition (1927), Moscow sculptors (1937), 1-й the exhibition of animalists (1939), books and book graphics Detgiz (1951), 4-й exhibition of works by book artists (1953), all-Union art exhibitions (1954, 1955, 1957), decorative arts (1955), applied arts 1-му all-Union Congress of Soviet artists (1957), "people's-прикладное and decorative art of the RSFSR" (1958), Republican art exhibition "Soviet Russia" (1960), new masterpieces of art industry (1961), works of Moscow artists-анималистов (1962), "Art and life" (1962; honorary diploma for the picture-рельефы "feeding the deer", "Deer", "North"), "Moscow Artists — 50-летию of October" (1967), "50 лет Soviet art ceramics and glass" (1970) in Moscow; sculpture of mossh (1940), The Republican exhibition of decorative-прикладного art (1964) in Moscow and Leningrad. The participant of many international exhibitions: the International traveling exhibition "Animals in art" (1930, Leipzig, Winterthur, Zurich, St-Галлен, Basel), the International exhibition of modern masterpieces of pottery and porcelain in Cannes (1955), Soviet graphic art and sculpture in Ulan-Баторе and Pyongyang (1956), world exhibition in Brussels (1957; a gold medal for figure "bison", "Zebra", "Giraffe"), Soviet art in Wellington (New Zealand, 1957), International exhibition of ceramics in Prague (1961; honorary award for biscuit composition "Asiatic black bear").

Honored artist of the RSFSR (1971).

he was Buried in Tarusa.

Exhibition of works was held in Moscow (2009 — "Artist Sokolova from the desert"; 110th-летию birthday), Gorlovka (2012).

Work is represented in many Museum collections, among them — of the State Tretyakov gallery, State Russian Museum, the Museum of decorative-прикладного and folk art, State Museum of ceramics and manor "Kuskovo" XVIII century, Gorlovsky art Museum.

In Sokolova desert private open house-музей said.

Sources:

1. Directory of members of Union of artists of the USSR as of 1 апреля 1988 года. M., 1989. S. 379.
2. Artists of the USSR. Biobibliographic dictionary. M., 1976, vol. 3. P. 124-125.
3. gardnerporcelain.com.