Ippolit Vasilevich Sokolov (Russian: Ипполит Соколов 1902, Kharkov – 8 December 1974) was a Russian theatre critic, screenwriter and poet. He became involved with the Moscow-based Central Institute of Labour. Ippolit Sokolov was born into a working-class family. He started his literary activity when he was 14. In 1918 he moved to Moscow where he studied at the Socialist Academy in the political and legal department.