Oksana Sokolova: biography, personal life, career

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

“Strong women are skillfully able to hide their emotions,” says Oksana Sokolova, it’s impossible to disagree with her, because one of the most popular Ukrainian TV presenters is exactly one of them.

Biography

Oksana was born on May 13, 1971 in the city of Cherkasy. The girl's family was ordinary, having nothing to do with journalism. Her parents prophesied her a career as a famous pianist and planned to send her to a music school. Oksana's mother worked all her life as a music teacher, tried to instill in her daughter love for her and did not even allow the thought that she would decide to do something else. When Oksana was six, her parents divorced, and soon her mother married another, reckless musician. The girl never met her own father again.

Fate intervened

Oksana Sokolova also took her musical future for granted, she diligently played the piano at home, attended a music school, but intuitively understood that she did not like it at all. On a cold February day, on the way to class, the girl fell and badly hurt her hand, but because of her innate stubbornness, she went to the lesson and sat down at the piano. ATDuring the game, the hand was very swollen, it was immediately sent to the emergency room, they put a plaster cast on it. It was unbearable to wear it, and here at school they had a party on the occasion of the upcoming March 8th, without thinking twice, Oksana cut off the plaster, not to go to the dance so ugly. As a result, the bone that had not yet fused was displaced, and the technique for professional music making was lost. Oksana's musical career has come to an end.

Student years

After school, Oksana Sokolova decided to enter Kyiv. She chose the faculty of journalism spontaneously, it just seemed to her not so difficult, and at school she wrote articles for the wall newspaper more than once. Student time was fun, they put on national costumes, walked around the city, even went caroling. In the same place, Oksana met her first husband, both were young and did not yet approach the decision responsibly. The marriage lasted on paper for about thirteen years, and in life Oksana and her husband remained just good friends. The girl entered into a second marriage already at a conscious age, after a long conversation, the couple just went to the registry office in the morning and signed, without entourage and a solemn banquet.

Up the career ladder

First, Oksana Sokolova got a job at the regional television in the city of Cherkasy. And since 2000, she transferred to the ICTV channel, was a reporter, then in 2001 she became a presenter. At that time she was only 23 years old. Later, commercial channels began to appear in Ukraine, the girl simultaneously wrote scripts forthem, everything was interesting to her, new job offers began to arrive. But Oksana was pleased with her achievements at that time, a good house, her own car, a comfortable office.

New standards

Closer to the age of thirty, Oksana resolutely moved to Kyiv, where wide open spaces opened up for her development. I had to leave my son with my mother, sell the house, and here buy a small "Khrushchev". During the day - "Facts with Oksana Sokolova", and in the evening she glued wallpaper, trying to complete the repair as soon as possible. As a result, the son went to the first grade already here in Kyiv.

“Now work is everything for me,” Oksana admits. She is constantly at the epicenter of events, which made her tougher and harder. When the project “Facts of the Week with Oksana Sokolova” was still in its infancy and lasted 25 minutes, the girl had enough time for a cup of coffee with her friends, a full day off or a walk in the botanical garden. Now the program lasts 90 minutes, a huge flow of information is being processed, there is simply no time to relax. It was for these reasons that Oksana left Facts of the Week on July 24 last year and appeared on the air in a completely different image only six months later, this winter.