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In his youth, Leonid Sokov diligently worked on his image as a rough-hewn country boy. He in fact was born in a Russian village, but moved to Moscow at the age of ten.

Nevertheless, he apparently needed to overcome a serious culture gap to fit in the circle of capital city snobs and intellectuals, with whom he studied at the Stroganov School and where a series of ideas was being elaborated that later would be called Sots Art.

Moreover, he was the one who displayed the greatest activity in the discussions held in the early 1970s by the young rebels who wanted to find ways of integrating the factures of Soviet and contemporary art.

Leonid Sokov (Russian: Леони́д Петро́вич Со́ков; October 11, – 4 April ) was a Russian nonconformist artist and sculptor.

Leonid Sokov (Russian: Леони́д Петро́вич Со́ков; October 11, – 4 April ) was a Russian nonconformist artist and sculptor.

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Leonid Sokov was a Russian nonconformist artist and sculptor.

Leonid Sokov (–), Russian nonconformist artist and sculptor; Mariya Sokova (born ), Uzbekistani triple jumper; Vasiliy Sokov (born ), Soviet.

These works or works by this artist may not be in the public domain, because the artist has not been dead for at least 70 years.

Yet, he managed to find the coziest method to earn a living that did not require any serious moral compromises. He designed children’s playgrounds, which in those days usually involved wooden animalistic sculptures in a pseudo-folk style.

The “children’s” sphere permitted substantial deviations from the canons of Socia