Sokolov Boris Mikhailovich (b. 1944, Ufa) — actor.

From 1961 to 1964, Boris Sokolov studied at the Kyiv Institute of Theatre Arts; in 1965, he graduated from GITIS named after A. V. Lunacharsky. He worked at the Baltic Fleet Theatre (1965), the Vladimir Mayakovsky Russian Drama Theatre in Dushanbe (1966–1967), and the Riga Russian Drama Theatre (1968–1973).

Among his roles of this period were Stepan Lukin (Barbarians by Maxim Gorky, 1969), the Baron (The Lower Depths by Gorky), Isaac Belvedonsky (The Bathhouse by Vladimir Mayakovsky; both 1970), Glumov (Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man by Alexander Ostrovsky, 1973), and others.

From 1973, he was an actor in Leningrad theatres: the Lensoviet Theatre (1973–1976), where he played Trigorin (The Seagull by Anton Chekhov), Bagrov (Transit by Leonid Zorin), and Lord Warwick (The Lark by Jean Anouilh); the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theatre (1976–1977); and from 1977 the Komissarzhevskaya Drama Theatre.

Among his later roles were Kaelin (The Holy of Holies by Ion Druță, 1977), O’Grady (The Diplomat by Semyon Aloshin, 1980), Stalin (An Unfinished Portrait after Anatoly Chakovsky, 1986), Charles (The Murder of Gonzago by Nedialko Yordanov, 1992), and others.

His most significant film roles include the violinist in Paganini (Declaration of Love, 1973), Alexander Rayevsky (The Star of Captivating Happiness, 1975), Korotin (Was There a Korotin?, 1990; The Return of the Battleship, 1995), and others.

People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1990).