In 1991, he graduated from Oles Honchar Dnipro National University with a speciality Mechanical Engineer of Spacecraft.

[1] From 1991 to 1997 he worked as a master design engineer at Yuzhmash (Production Association Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant).

In 2001, Sokolov initiated a program of providing Dnipro city with drinking water, got the Diploma International Academic Rating of Popularity and Quality Gold Fortune, Nominee for The Best Project award.

In February 2013, on behalf of the United Opposition he created the human rights NGO All-Ukrainian Commission of Justice together with the People's Deputies of Ukraine.

The commission collected and submitted to the President of Ukraine more than 5000 signatures for the release of Yulia Tymoshenko, and other Ukrainian political prisoners.

In December 2014 he organized the visit of Jim Slattery, the President of the US Congressmen's Association to Kyiv as part of a campaign to protect the family estate of aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky and to create a museum there.

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Sokolov failed to return to parliament; after being placed 25th on the electoral list of Batkivshchina.