Sokolov Dmitry Vladimirovich (b. 1965) is a Russian comedian, showman and actor. Founder of the KVN team from Yekaterinburg “Ural dumplings”. Show business figure, participant in the entertainment project on the STS television channel “Show “Ural Dumplings”. He has an amazing, unpredictable, sometimes absurd sense of humor.

Childhood

Dima was born on April 11, 1965 in the city of Pervouralsk Sverdlovsk region. In the family of Irina Alexandrovna and Vladimir Sergeevich Sokolov, this was the second child (Dmitry has an older sister).

WITH early childhood the boy grew up incredibly active and artistic. IN three years of age he already knew by heart “The Tale of the Town Musicians of Bremen” by the Brothers Grimm, which was read to the baby before bed. One day a TV repairman came to the Sokolovs’ home. While he was working, the child gave him a real performance: he told the whole fairy tale, and accompanied it with songs and dances. When the master finished his work and began to leave, he jokingly asked Dima’s parents: “Why do you need a TV with such and such an artist?”

Little Sokolov loved to sing, despite the fact that his hearing was poor. Although this did not stop him from studying music school and even perform in a folk ensemble.

But with studying in secondary school At first things were rather bad. Due to excessive restlessness and activity, the boy did not pay attention to his lessons and did not remember school material. Teachers complained to parents about their child being too inquisitive and active. But, according to Dmitry’s mother, the boy did not grow up bad or dirty, he was simply a great inventor.

Starting from the fourth grade, the situation improved; the older Dima became, the better his academic performance. And when their class was taken to Moscow during the holidays, he generally pleasantly surprised the teachers with his proposal to take them not to the circus, zoo or cafe, as other children wanted, but to the theater.

Students

Having received a certificate of secondary education, Dmitry went to Yekaterinburg, where he became a student at the Faculty of Chemical Technology of the Ural Polytechnic Institute. His older sister was already studying here. She was the first activist public life, a member of the “Horizon” construction team, a member of the propaganda team. The girl always invited her parents and younger brother to numerous concerts and theme evenings organized by the construction team. Moreover, students organized these events not only within the walls of the institute; they often went to collective farms, hospitals, factories and other enterprises to give performances.

Such a fun student and construction brigade life captivated Dima, and soon he also became a member of Horizon. Sokolov was delighted with the atmosphere of humor and laughter that reigned in the detachment, quickly joined the team and became a local star.

After his second year, he went with a construction team to Astrakhan. Everything was great - performances, evenings with guitars and bonfires, a lot of new good friends. But during the trip, some students, including Dima, fell ill with typhoid fever. Long-term treatment was required, so Sokolov had to take an academic leave from the institute.

After recovery and before the start of the new semester, when he could go back to school, there was not much time left. But it was during this period that Dmitry was recruited to serve in the army. Once in the military construction unit, he did not forget about amateur performances here either. Having served, as expected, for two years, he returned to his native institute.

Club of the Cheerful and Resourceful

In 1991, Dima became a member of the KVN team “Neighbors”, which united the best student comedians from two educational institutions– Ural Polytechnic and Tyumen medical institutes. The team received an invitation to participate in the games of the KVN Major League, but at the qualifying stage they lost to the guys from Novosibirsk.

In 1992, Sokolov was unanimously elected commissar of student teams at the institute.

In 1993, the Neighbors team broke up. And then Dmitry, who had already thoroughly studied KVN cuisine from the inside, decided to create his own new team. As the commissar of construction teams, he selected the best and congenial representatives from all the propaganda teams of the Polytechnic Institute and invited them to his team. All these guys were not random, as Sokolov himself says, you don’t get into KVN just by choice, to play it, you need to have an innate sense of humor and artistry. This is how the now famous “Ural dumplings” were born throughout Russia. They decided to name the team in honor of a restaurant in Sverdlovsk with exactly the same name.

"Ural dumplings"

Immediately after its creation, in 1993, the team played a friendly game with the guys from the law school and won its first victory.

In 1995, “Ural dumplings” took part in the city KVN championship, in which they not only reached the finals, but also became champions of Yekaterinburg, defeating the team from the Ural state university. In the same year they made their debut in the KVN Major League. Having performed at the festival in Sochi at the beginning of the year, the guys received an invitation to a gala concert during the Major League season.

The team spent five seasons in the KVN Major League, gradually rising to its most cherished goal:

• 1995 – eliminated from the 1/8;
• 1996 - lost already in 1/4;
• 1997 - lost again at the 1/8 stage;
• 1998 - reached the semi-finals, where they lost to the guys from the Tomsk team “Children of Lieutenant Schmidt”, who eventually became champions;
• 2000 - they beat the “Burnt by the Sun” team from Sochi in the final, becoming not just champions of the Major League, but also securing their unofficial status as “the last champions of the 20th century.”

The performances of “Ural Dumplings” have always been a huge success. In addition to the championship, the team became the owner of prestigious KVN awards:

• Summer Cup (2002);
• “Big KiViN in the Dark” (2005, 2006);
• “Big KiViN in Light” (1999, 2004);
• “Big KiViN in gold” (2002).

In addition to the fact that Dmitry Sokolov founded such a talented team, it is worth noting his own performance on the KVN stage. Dima's appearance was always an explosive mixture of brutal, subtle and at the same time simple humor. He spoke all his jokes calmly, sometimes even gloomily, without a smile and with a stony face, which caused even more laughter in the audience. The audience especially remembered the verse “Lonely White Mouse” performed by Sokolov, which is rightly called a classic of KVN humor.

TV

“Ural Dumplings” became the only KVN team that, after finishing its career in the Major League, managed to continue performing on television with almost the same composition and even celebrate its twentieth anniversary. At the same time, their popularity does not decrease every year, but, on the contrary, grows.

In 2007, the guys came up with their project “Show News” (a humorous version of the news program), which they presented on the TNT television channel. The first episodes were popular with viewers, even for some time included in the channel's Top 10 programs. Gradually, the show's ratings began to fall.

In 2009, “Ural Dumplings” had the chance to have a big concert performance on Ren-TV. The channel's producers did not allocate any money to organize the filming, but the guys decided not to waste the opportunity that had arisen and recorded the concert using their own funds. Here they made the right decision; they were soon offered permanent cooperation on the STS channel.

Every month they prepare and show a new humorous program. Dmitry often plays the role of a simple-minded but sophisticated village peasant. In addition to going on stage, Sokolov is also a director, concert organizer, and one of the authors of numerous jokes, original ideas, songs and sketches.

The most famous and popular concert programs"Ural dumplings":

• “Laughter at the Christmas Tree”;
• "Refreeze";
• "Laughter";
• "Laughter in the City";
• "Star screams. Laughter of psychos";
• "Laughbat";
• “100 gigabytes of laughter”;
• "Back to the Bakery";
• "Stay funny";
• "Funny Bratva";
• "Happy in the test";
• "Koldoeburg";
• "Offside";
• "Because gladiolus."

The team’s work was highly praised by the Academy of Russian Television Foundation. In 2013, the guys received the prestigious TEFI Commonwealth television award for their kind and sparkling humor. In the same year, according to Forbes magazine, “Ural Pelmeni” was included in the “50 Main Russian Celebrities”.

In addition to “Ural Dumplings,” Dmitry Sokolov sometimes appeared on other television channels, where he performed solo numbers in humorous shows:

• in the parody program “Big Difference” (Channel One);
• in the improvisational TV show “Southern Butovo” (Channel One);
• in the information and entertainment program “ProjectorParisHilton” (Channel One);
• in a comedy show Comedy Club"(TNT).

From 2011 to 2013, the sketch show “Unreal Story” was aired on the STS channel, where Sokolov played the role of the head of the village of Khitropopovka (Luka Lukich).

In 2015, Dmitry Sokolov turned fifty years old; Ural Dumplings celebrated this event on stage with the concert “50 Friends of SOKOLOUSEN”.

Personal life

Dima met his first wife Natasha while studying at the institute. She studied at the Faculty of Engineering and Economics. Together the students went to the construction team. On the trip, when in the evenings they gathered around the fire and sang songs with a guitar, Natasha immediately set her eyes on the universal joker nicknamed Falcon. And he, in turn, drew attention to the smart and beautiful girl.

Dima looked after her very beautifully, the lovers did not delay the wedding and got married. In 1992, they had a boy, who was named Alexander. Ten years later, the family was replenished with a girl, Anya.

But in the early 2000s, Dmitry just became fanatically interested in the Club of the Cheerful and Resourceful. I began to be at home less and less often, but this occupation did not bring in a decent income. All worries about the children and the household fell on the shoulders of the wife. At some point, she could not stand it and asked her husband to make a choice - either his constant traveling would stop and he would be close to his family, or they would separate. Sokolov chose divorce because KVN became his life’s work.

Natalia took the separation very hard, but did not forbid her ex-husband from seeing the children. Now the old grievances have subsided, Natasha and Dima have maintained friendly relations. She never established her personal life and did not get married a second time.

Dmitry did not stay single for long. In 2006, a meeting of KVN student teams was held in Yekaterinburg. Dima was invited to join the jury. One young participant, performing on stage for the team “Irina Mikhailovna,” attracted his attention. Then at a party he got to know this girl, whose name was Ksenia Li.

She was from Kazakhstan, a wonderful singer, beautiful, open and cheerful. After meeting, Dmitry fell for her even more strongly and began to show signs of attention. But Ksyusha translated everything into a joke; the young girl was embarrassed by the big age difference (Dmitry is 23 years older than Ksenia). But Sokolov was persistent, courted, gave gifts, invited to celebrate the New Year holidays in the city of Sochi. No one had ever looked after Ksenia so beautifully; Dima conquered her with his care and kindness.

For Ksyusha, Sokolov’s expensive gifts (a fur coat, a car, a house) were not so important, but the fact that he supported her the most during a particularly difficult period. Since childhood, her disease has progressed - deformation of her legs. Some time after meeting Dima, Ksenia began to walk worse and worse, it even came to the point of using crutches. For a long time the girl could not decide to undergo surgery. Dmitry persuaded her, paid for everything and during the rehabilitation period was nearby, giving Ksyusha foot massages at night.

In September 2011, Dima and Ksenia had a gorgeous wedding in Yekaterinburg. It was very noisy and fun. In October 2012, the couple had their first girl, Maria. In 2015, almost on her husband’s fiftieth birthday, Ksenia gave him a son, Ivan. Dmitry's half-century anniversary was loudly celebrated on April 11, and a week later, on April 19, Vanka was born. In May 2017, they had another girl, Sofia (initially, the parents wanted to name their daughter Ioanna, but then changed their minds).

Dmitry devotes every free minute to his wife and children. Now it’s difficult for him to find time for his favorite hobby, fishing, or for watching the good old comedies of Gaidai, which Sokolov adores.

The wife of the founders of the popular group “Ural Dumplings” Dmitry Sokolov recently became a mother for the third time. 29-year-old Ksenia Li gave her husband a charming girl. Dmitry Sokolov's pregnant wife showed her baby bump

The baby's weight is 3970 grams, height is 52 centimeters. Happy parents named an heiress unusual name- John. “Greetings from Ioanna Dmitrievna Sokolova. Incredibly easy and pleasant birth! We are incredibly grateful to the perinatal center and personally to Andrey Vladimirovich Zhilin and his team! To the wonderful anesthesiologist Akim Semenovich! Low bow to you from our entire family! God bless you!” - Ksenia and Dmitry wrote in the microblog.

Fans immediately rushed to congratulate the star couple on the addition to the family.

“Congratulations! Love and blessings to your family!”, “Congratulations! Health to you all, strength and quickly come under your dad-husband’s wing,” “Please accept our heartfelt congratulations! Ioanna, good health to mom and dad too!”, “What happiness and joy this is! These tiny fingers... and the smell are more tender than all the flowers in the world! Miracle!”, “I congratulate you with all my heart! Health to the baby, little Joanna, and speedy recovery to mommy,” “I heartily congratulate you on the new little person in your family. May your daughter grow and be happy!” - such comments are left by subscribers under a post about a newborn.

By the way, StarHit was the first to tell its readers about the upcoming addition to the Ural Dumplings family. “Yes, we are waiting for replenishment, don’t you think so,” Dmitry Sokolov said last winter. – The wife’s pregnancy is six or six and a half months. We are due to give birth around the beginning of May. And we know the gender of the baby, we’re having a girl!”

The newborn baby became the fifth child of Dmitry Sokolov, who turned 52 in April. From his first marriage, the artist has a 24-year-old son, Alexander, and a 14-year-old daughter, Anna. Dmitry Sokolov and his wife Ksenia are already raising two joint kids- daughter Masha, who is five years old, and two-year-old son Vanya. By the way, the happy father was present at the birth of the heir. Whether he received the newborn Joanna is still unknown.

Let us remember that the future spouses met in 2006 at a KVN game: Ksenia played for the Irina Mikhailovna team, and Sokolov sat on the jury. At first, Ksenia did not respond to the advances of the famous Kaveen player, the age difference was too great - 23 years, but the tenacity and perseverance of Dmitry Sokolov melted the heart of the brown-eyed beauty. The lovers celebrated their wedding in Yekaterinburg in 2011. Ksenia Li not only takes care of children, but also writes scripts with her husband. She is almost always with the Ural Dumplings team, and during the filming of programs she sits in the hall.

The creator of “Ural dumplings” saved his young wife from disability

The creator of “Ural dumplings” saved his young wife from disability

According to a survey of Express Gazeta readers, the most popular humorous television program is the talk show “Ural Dumplings.” The team of cheerful and resourceful Ural residents turns 20 this year. Its founder is the most mature and colorful participant - Dmitry SOKOLOV. If Sokol talks about his life outside of television, it is only in his characteristic humorous manner. Relatives and friends of the “dumpling” helped us understand what was a joke and what was the truth.

Dmitry Sokolov born in the small town of Pervouralsk, not far from Yekaterinburg.

Dima has been since childhood an unusual child“, - the mother of the “dumpling” Irina Aleksandrovna assures Express Newspaper. - At the age of three, he already knew “The Bremen Town Musicians” by heart. One day a repairman came to us to fix the TV. So Dima sang and danced the whole fairy tale to him. The master was delighted! As he was leaving, he said to my husband and me: “Why do you need a TV? You have such a son growing up!”

- In one of the numbers Dmitry plays the balalaika...

The son graduated from music school despite the fact that he had no hearing. He studied diligently, even participated in the ensemble.

- Were you successful at school?

I studied poorly until the fourth grade. He was a very active boy, he was constantly inventing something, and the teacher really didn’t like it. At parent-teacher meetings, she complained: “I don’t even know what your Dima will turn out to be...” And in the fifth grade, the teachers changed, and everything began to improve for Dima. I remember the teacher took them to Moscow. The guys - some to the cafe, some to the zoo, and the son - to the theater. This was the first time he was praised for this in front of the class.

- Have you ever felt embarrassed for your son?

He was an inventor, but not a dirty trickster. True, he made my father and I nervous once when I forgot the keys to the apartment and decided to go down from the neighbor’s fifth floor to our fourth floor. drainpipe. When I imagined that he could break loose, I told my husband: “Take the belt!” But he is a gentle man: he only held the belt in his hands, but could not hit his son... Dima never even stood in the corner: we will punish him, but he will stand for a couple of minutes and leave. So we are very kind parents: we laugh and go our separate ways.

unrequited love

After prom Dmitry began to actively prepare for admission to university. My older sister, who had already been studying at the Ural Polytechnic Institute for two years, helped me decide on a profession.

At that time, student construction teams were popular,” continues Irina Aleksandrovna. - The guys, in their free time from school, went to collective farms and organized concerts there. My husband and I tried to attend all the events in which our daughter participated, and we took Dima with us - we wanted to show how fun student life is. It seems to me that he went to college just for this.

After the second year, my son and the construction team went to Astrakhan. The heat there was terrible, they drank water every now and then and caught some kind of infection. Dima was the first to fall: the doctors took him to the hospital with high temperature and for a week they could not understand what was wrong with him. My boy almost died then. The diagnosis was announced only after a professorial consultation - typhoid fever. Seven more were taken to the hospital with him; the rest of the construction crews held concerts under their windows. Very good guys! Dima was lucky with his friends: they “infected” him with an interest in life and got him interested in KVN.

- Your son created the KVN team “Ural Dumplings”. Were you proud when they started showing Dima on TV?

I am glad that there are such wonderful guys on the team: talented, friendly - they have been together for so many years! And I was always terribly worried about my son. We still get excited when we see him on screen. By the way, a lot of what happens in our family is later revealed on stage.

- Probably, there was no end to the fans?

Back in kindergarten liked one girl, but she was friends with another boy. I remember Dima was very upset. In the ninth grade, he also experienced unrequited love. Once I went to a collective farm, earned some money there and used the entire amount to buy a huge bouquet of roses for my beloved. I came to her, but my mother opened the door. Dima was confused, asked her to give her daughter flowers, and he ran away. Nothing worked out with this girl: she married Dima’s friend.

Walked on crutches

Dmitry met his future wife Natalya at the institute. The girl studied to become an economic engineer and was also in the construction team. Numerous trips, songs around the fire - Natasha quickly drew attention to the joker named Falcon. Dima courted beautifully, and soon the lovers decided to get married. In 1992, their son Sasha was born, and ten years later their daughter Anya. But her husband’s fanatical passion for KVN began to irritate Natalya: it did not bring constant income, but it took up all her time.

Natasha is a wonderful woman,” sighs Irina Aleksandrovna. - She’s beautiful, smart, but... When Dima was making dumplings, all the worries about the house and children fell on her shoulders. One day Natasha could not stand it and put him before a choice. She wanted her husband to always be there, and Dima was constantly on the road. They ended up breaking up six years ago. She was going through the divorce very hard, but did not forbid Dima to see the children. Now they are friends. Natasha has never established her personal life - it seems to me that she is still worried.

But Sokol did not stay single for long. In 2006, at a meeting of KVN student teams in Yekaterinburg, he met a young member of the team “Irina Mikhailovna”. Ksenia Li performed on stage, and Dmitry sat on the jury as a recognized Kaveanov authority.

Ksyusha is from Kazakhstan. “She sings great,” said one of her team members Vladimir Kovalev. - Sokolov immediately fell for her and began to show signs of attention. But Ksyusha translated everything into a joke - she was embarrassed by the age difference. (Now Dmitry is 48, and his chosen one is 25. - V.M.) Their relationship moved into a serious phase after New Year's holidays which they celebrated together in Sochi. It seems to me that Dima won her over with his kindness and care. Ksyukha said that she had never been looked after so beautifully in her life!

Dima and Ksyusha played a noisy wedding in the fall of 2011... Photo:

Not everything worked out right away in the personal life of Sokol, a member of the Ural Dumplings team. He was married and had a son and daughter, but his first marriage did not work out. Some people believe that Dmitry himself is to blame - he is a careerist. Some people want to blame their ex for everything. wife of Dmitry Sokolov: I couldn’t come to terms with long separations, I couldn’t stand it. It is obvious that both were unable or unwilling to find common ground.

However, immediately after the divorce, Dmitry, as a member of the KVN jury, saw in one of the teams a girl almost half his age, whom he could not forget. Ksyusha conquered him immediately. First with my abilities, my beautiful voice. And they managed to get to know each other better at a party with friends in Sochi. And although the girl was outraged by the proposal, made almost immediately, to live together, they did so very quickly. A cloudless, bright romance at 46 years old. It’s time to be happy for Sokolov. But everything in life is not as simple as it seems.

The battle is a test of the feelings of Dmitry Sokolov and his wife.

One day they didn’t fly to Egypt together because... she didn't have a visa. To say that I was upset when he went abroad alone is not enough. It's hard to come to terms with this. And then his call is a marriage proposal. And the wedding, fiery, cheerful, in the style of “Sicilian showdowns”.

Look at the photo of Dmitry Sokolov’s wife and you will see a radiant, fragile beauty. Bare shoulders, amazing hairstyle and long earrings highlight the oriental beauty of the bride. She gets lost in his arms and gracefully poses against the backdrop of luxurious flowers, proudly walks surrounded by friends to her beloved, and flies up into his arms. But suddenly Ksyusha wipes away a completely unexpected tear that appeared from nowhere. Why?

Maybe it's because of the memories. The girl has been accustomed to fighting fate since childhood. A serious illness forced her to use crutches. But Ksenia didn’t even want to think about an operation that could save her. She didn’t want to until Dmitry appeared in her life. I persuaded him, everything went well. In order to survive the consequences - pain, doubt - not only she had to endure a lot. He was there all the time. In the most difficult months, he helped, consoled, and gave massages himself. Who, having seen how she takes off in a combat jump, will now believe that Ksenia had to go through so much?

But wife of Dmitry Sokolov remembers what pain is and how it helps when in a bitter moment you are remembered. That’s why Ksyusha, in turn, tries. It is she, for example, who, without advertising, participates in raising money for a sick child.

“...a woman must be taken care of, protected, and held responsible for her peace of mind”

The benefits of life, as Sokol promised, come later. And at first everything was like the majority: lack of money, without your own home. And taking care of his two beloved women - his wife and daughter. Mashenka is still too young to understand how kind and loving her dad is. After all, she is looked after when he travels by his older children from a previous marriage, with whom Dmitry and Ksyusha have excellent relationships.

Their friends console them that they look very similar in appearance. And there are amazing coincidences in their destinies. Their fathers are from large families; Dmitry Sokolov and his wife, Ksenia, grew up in almost the same conditions, although far from each other. As the spouses themselves admit, they almost never quarrel. Maybe this is the merit of KVN, which helped these two realize how a joke helps in difficult moments.

The light and memorable images of simpletons that Dmitry creates so colorfully come with great difficulty. Gossip and rumors swirl constantly, darkening and invading personal life. Then someone will tell the world that he was in prison, confusing the role with reality. Ksenia, like no one else, understands everything and does not pay attention to such nonsense (or is she successfully hiding the fact that she is vulnerable?).

Yes, and Falcon’s endless travels continue. After all, UP has numerous shows, concerts, and holidays. Dmitry also acts in films. Dmitry Sokolov's wife waits and constantly receives confirmation of love. He looked after me so beautifully. Obviously, their bouquet and candy period is not over yet. But she doesn't want to sit at home all the time. That’s why she sometimes goes after him. And the “Kaveen vein” of the young mother makes itself felt. Ksenia helped Dima create a new program. And this is another guarantee, I really want to believe in it, of their happy future together.

Dmitry Sokolov is a Russian showman and comedian, founder of the KVN team “Ural Dumplings” and a permanent participant in the humorous shows of the same name, in which the former KVN team participates.

Dmitry Vladimirovich Sokolov was born in April 1965, in the city of Pervouralsk, located in the Sverdlovsk region. Dmitry – youngest child in the family. He has an older sister.

Dmitry Sokolov grew up as an active and artistic guy. As the artist’s mother, Irina Aleksandrovna, said in an interview, at the age of 3, her son knew the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “The Town Musicians of Bremen” by heart. And one day, when a repairman came to the house to fix the TV, Dima gave a real performance: the boy recited, sang and danced this fairy tale to the grateful audience. As he was leaving, the master asked: “Why do you need a TV?”

Until the 4th grade, Dmitry Sokolov did not study very diligently: his innate mobility and curiosity were in no way combined with perseverance. Teachers often complained about Dima. But, according to the mother, the son was an inventor, but not a dirty tricker. In middle and high school, the boy improved his academic performance. The parents managed to redirect some of their son’s excess energy to a useful hobby for music. Although Dmitry had no hearing or musical abilities, Sokolov diligently studied at music school and even participated in the ensemble.

In the 5th grade, Dmitry Sokolov managed to surprise his teachers a lot. During a trip to the capital, the children asked to take the class to a zoo, a circus, or a cafe. Only Dima asked to show the theater.

After finishing school, Sokolov went to Yekaterinburg. For admission, Dmitry identified the Ural Polytechnic University, where he chose the Faculty of Chemical Technology. This choice was dictated by the fact that Dmitry’s older sister studied here. The girl took part in the busy and cheerful life of the student construction team “Horizon”. The guys went to collective farms, where they organized concerts. My brother soon developed the same hobby.

After the 2nd year, Dmitry Sokolov went with a construction team to Astrakhan. A misfortune happened there: several guys, among whom was Dima, fell ill with typhoid fever. After a long treatment and recovery, Sokolov took academic leave. So from the construction brigade he ended up in the construction battalion. But after the army, the guy returned to his favorite pastime - amateur performances.

KVN

For some time after returning from the army, Dmitry Sokolov played in the rock band “Neighbors”. Having seen and thoroughly studied the entire “kitchen” from the inside, 28-year-old Sokolov decided to create own project. Thus, in 1993, a new and now famous team, “Ural Dumplings,” was born.

KVN team "Ural dumplings"

At the origins of the team was Dmitry, a veteran of the “Horizon” construction team. The residents of the new team were guys from different construction teams of the Ural Polytechnic University. All of them, according to Sokolov, are not random people. Because you can’t get into KVN just by choice. You must be born with a sense of humor and artistic ability. The new team subsequently turned into an independent and full-fledged project, forever changing the biography of Dmitry Sokolov.

The very first performances of “Ural Dumplings” as part of the KVN game were accompanied by enormous success. Very soon the team from Yekaterinburg got to Major League KVN. A few years later, 6 prestigious awards appeared in their treasury, including the KVN Super Champions Cup and several KiViNs.

Each of the players is an accomplished artist, very bright and charismatic. The game of the founder of “Ural dumplings” Dmitry Sokolov can be especially highlighted. This is an explosive mixture of simple and even somewhat brutal, but at the same time subtle humor. Calm and even gloomy, Dmitry tells his jokes with a straight face, often without a hint of a smile. It’s a paradox, but this is an additional incentive to laugh at his witticisms.

Dmitry Sokolov or Sokol, as his colleagues call him, is one of the audience’s favorites. Some of his jokes turned into aphorisms. The poem “Lonely White Mouse” performed by Sokol is almost a classic of modern humor.

"Ural dumplings"

The Ural Dumplings team created by Dmitry Sokolov is perhaps the only one that managed to continue its life on television even after finishing playing in KVN. Moreover, “Pelmeni” today is no less, and perhaps more popular, than during the period of its biography.

In 2007, team members created their own project - a parody news program “Show News”, which was supported and broadcast by “Comedy Club Production” and “Around the World Production”. The first episodes of the TV show were popular among viewers and were included in the channel's Top 10 programs.

In terms of popularity, “Show News” took place between the series “My Fair Nanny”, “Happy Together”, “Slaughter League” and the show “Comedy Club”, but subsequent episodes began to lose the love of TV viewers. In 2009, the team tried to restart the project, but this did not save Show News, so Ural Dumplings switched to their own personal project, which began to enjoy success.

Today, Ural Dumplings has its own show, which has been airing on the STS channel since 2009. In the show, Dmitry Sokolov plays the role of a narrow-minded, “village” person who does not understand the current situations, but at the same time is endowed with special simple wisdom. In addition, situations are often played out when other characters are afraid of the hero Dmitry. Sokolov's teammates play the roles of intellectuals and eccentrics, and Dmitry's hero can show the aggression or savagery required in a joke. This is also facilitated by the showman's appearance - tall (but the exact height of the actor is unknown to journalists), powerful, with a shaved head.

As for Dmitry Sokolov, not a single project in which artists from “Ural Dumplings” take part is complete without his participation. He organizes concerts and directs. Sokolov is one of the main authors of most jokes, sketches and new projects. As an actor he is also irreplaceable. Viewers can enjoy his performance in " Big difference", "ProjectorParisHilton", "Yuzhny Butovo" and "Comedy Club", where Sokolov performed both with sketches and humorous songs. And, of course, Dmitry Sokolov is present in every episode of the Ural Dumplings show.

At the same time, comedians launched other projects. In 2011, members of the Ural Dumplings launched the sketch show Unreal Story, which aired for three seasons. In 2012, the team created another humorous parody show - “Valera-TV”. The plot of the episodes played up the growing interest around video bloggers. Main character project, Valera works as a cameraman in the province and decides to also start a blog, where she posts videos of everything she comes across.

The Ural Dumplings team celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2013. The anniversary concert was called “20 years in the test.” These years, Dmitry Sokolov remained one of the pillars on which the popular team relied. At the same time, no one can blame Dima for star fever or loss of a sense of humor due to popularity.

Personal life

In the biography of Dmitry Sokolov there are two marriages. The artist’s first wife was Natalya, whom Dmitry met in a construction team. The girl was also a student at the university where Dmitry studied. Two children were born in this marriage. Son Alexander appeared in 1992, daughter Anna in 2002. But the nomadic life of a KVN artist and the everyday problems that fell on the fragile women’s shoulders took their sad toll: the family fell apart.

Dmitry Sokolov's personal life improved in 2011. In September, Sokolov married for the second time. The showman's wife was Ksenia Li, familiar to fans of the KVN game. The girl was an actress of the “Irina Mikhailovna” team.

The couple met in 2006. Common interests and romantic feelings became the basis of this marriage. Then children appeared in the family. Masha was born in the fall of 2012, and Vanya in April 2015. It is noteworthy that the son was born a week after Dmitry celebrated his 50th birthday and became a real gift for his dad’s anniversary.

Ksenia Li also helps her husband write scripts for the Ural Dumplings show. The woman goes on tour with Dmitry Sokolov, and during the filming of TV shows and live performances she always sits in the audience and supports her husband’s team.

Dmitry Sokolov now

In March 2017, a full-length film created by the Ural Dumplings team - the comedy "Lucky Chance" - was released. The main character Valera () wins 43 million rubles in the lottery. Together with his friends, the lucky one escapes to Moscow. Men want to spend their winnings on their own without sharing with their wives. But the other halves of the heroes find out about the win and set off in pursuit of their husbands. The main roles in the comedy were played by members of the Ural Dumplings team.

In May 2017, journalists learned that Dmitry Sokolov became a father for the fifth time. Ksenia Li gave her husband a daughter, Joanna. The couple did not hide Ksenia’s pregnancy; the woman posted photographs on the microblog showing interesting situation. To direct questions from the press, Dmitry honestly answered that his wife was pregnant, and that the couple already knew the sex of the unborn child. The couple immediately wrote about the birth of a girl on the page in “ Instagram ».

Projects

• 2001 - “Outside the native square meters”
• 2002 - “Big Grater”
• 2007 - “Show News”
• 2009 – today - “Comedy Club”
• 2009 - “Big Difference”
• 2009 - “ProjectorParisHilton”
• 2009 - “Southern Butovo”
• 2009 - today - show "Ural dumplings"
• 2011 - “Unreal Story”
• 2012 - “Valera TV”
• 2017 – “Lucky Chance”