Alexander Ivanovich Sokolov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Соколо́в; 1 December 1918 – 9 May 1973) was a Soviet Russian painter and Art teacher, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation, regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting,[1] most famous for his genre painting.

Alexander Ivanovich Sokolov was born 1 December 1918, in Aleshki village, Voronezh Province of Soviet Russia.

He was a veteran of World War II, participated in the defense of the Leningrad and he had many military orders.

In 1950, Alexander Sokolov graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in Victor Oreshnikov workshop.

[2] He studied of Veniamin Belkin, Mikhail Bernshtein, Pavel Naumov, Andrei Mylnikov.