Sokolovskaya, Oksana Dmitrievna was born in 1917 in Odessa, Ukraine. In 1938 she studied in peoples art studio in Odessa and continued her education at the Odessa Art College until 1941. She was active in Lvov, Ukraine and from 1953, after the Second World War, she remained active in Kiev. Sokolovskaya began exhibiting in 1949 and specialized in portraits.