# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuri-sokolov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:21:33.173Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuri-sokolov"
name: "Yuri Sokolov"
slug: "yuri-sokolov"
description: "Yuri Sokolov, in cooperation with his brother Boris, released the book Russian Folklore in 1938. It became the first textbook on the topic of Russian folklore to be used in the Russian Universities. The information for the book was based on extensive field work that the two had conducted. Due to the popularity of the book, Sokolov was appointed to a plethora of positions in the field of folklore. The highest position in the field of folklore that he attained in his career came in 1938 with his election as the Chair of Folklore at the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, History and Literature."
tagline: "Russian folklorist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1889-04-07"
deathDate: "1941-01-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.56
  momentum:             16.6025641025641
  historical:           4.806516
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Sokolov"
    title: "Yuri Sokolov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iouri_Matv%C3%A9%C3%AF%C3%A9vitch_Sokolov"
    title: "Iouri Matvéïévitch Sokolov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D"
    title: "യൂറി സോകോലോവ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%AE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Соколов, Юрий Матвеевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%AE%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B9_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Соколов Юрій Матвійович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8061608"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump