Victor Alexandrovch Sokovnin (Russian: Виктор Александрович Соковнин; 1886–1937) was an opera singer and vocal teacher.
Born in the village Zavodouspenskoe, Tyumen county Tobolsk Province (now Tugulymsky district, Sverdlovsk Oblast).
Now, the Omsk regional music school named after one of its first graduating class - Soviet composer V.Y.
To search for talented youth in the Omsk region went to a special expedition of teachers from the Muses.
Sokovnin organized in Omsk, the first symphony orchestra from college students, musicians and fans of local theater.
Organizing the reconstruction of the old stables at a hostel for students and teachers, in connection with the acute housing shortage.
(Month before father-in-law Sokovnin - Petrov Ivan Mihajlovich working as the director of the factory on manufacture of cross ties in the city of Omsk has been shot).