I.A. Sorokovikov — an Active Participant in the Mongolian Revolution of 1921 and a Teacher at the Irkutsk Financial and Economic Institute, Author of Works on the History of Mongolia in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

The article presents the political and creative biography of I. A. Sorokovikov, a participant in the Mongolian revolution of 1921, one of the organizers of the creation of the Mongolian intelligence in 1922–1924, the author of two publications «Aratskaya Revolyutsiya», a teacher of mathematics to Mongolian students in Irkutsk. For the first time in Russian historiography, a complete political biography of I. A. Sorokovikov, the history of the creation of the book «Aratskaya revolution», is presented. New data from the biography of I. A. Sorokovikov, his contribution to the revolutionary transformations of Mongolia and the training of Mongolian students were introduced into scientific circulation.