Ippolit Vasilevich Sokolov (Russian: Ипполит Соколов 1902, Kharkov – 8 December 1974) was a Soviet theatre critic, screenwriter and poet.
In 1918 he moved to Moscow where he studied at the Socialist Academy in the political and legal department.
He visited the Poetry Studio, where Valery Bryusov, Andrei Bely and Vyacheslav Ivanov.
During the three years, from 1919 to 1921, he published nine pamphlets of poems and articles, including his Complete Works.
[2] Through these texts he formulated Expressionism as the "maximum of expressions" with a "dynamism of perception and thinking".