Alexey Ivanovich Sorokin () (28 March 1922 – 4 March 2020) was a Soviet Fleet Admiral and member of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union.

Sorokin was born one of five children. His father, a veteran invalid of the Russian Civil War, died in 1933 and his brother, Seraphim, was reported as missing in action at the front near Moscow in March 1942. Sorokin joined the Red Army in 1941 and served as a mortar operator. He was promoted to lieutenant, commanding a mortar battery and fought during the liberation of Belarus and with the Baltic Front.

After the war, Sorokin served as a political officer and studied at the Lenin Military-Political Academy between 1948 and 1952. After graduating Sorokin was posted to the Navy and served as a political officer on the destroyers Redkiy and Vdumchevy of the Soviet Pacific Fleet. In 1954 he became political officer aboard the cruiser Kalinin. In 1956 he became political officer of the Pacific Fleet destroyer squadron and in 1959 he became base political officer at Sovetskaya Gavan.

Sorokin became chief political officer of the Northern Fleet in 1974 and was promoted to vice admiral in 1975. He became chief political officer of the Soviet Navy in 1980 and deputy chief political officer of the Soviet armed forces in 1981. He was promoted to Fleet Admiral in 1988 and retired in 1992.

Sorokin served as a People's Deputy in the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union in 1989–91. In retirement he lived in Moscow and was president of the International Union of CIS War Veterans (Pensioners) Associations.

Sorokin died on 4 March 2020 at the age of 97. He was buried in the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery on 6 March.

Honours and awards
 Order of Lenin
 Order of October Revolution
 Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, twice, and 2nd class
 Order of the Red Banner of Labour
 Order of the Red Star, twice
 Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd class
 Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin"
 Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

References

Page in Russian
Sorokin's personal web page in Russian

1922 births
2020 deaths
Candidates of the Central Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Russian military leaders
Soviet admirals
Soviet military personnel of World War II
Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Lenin Military Political Academy alumni
Eleventh convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Members of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union
Burials at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery

Alexey Sorokin (admiral)


680 N Lake Shore Drive (a.k.a. Lake Shore Place) is a 29-story building located in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Originally named the American Furniture Mart, was completed in 1926. The two halves were designed separately: the eastern half by Raeder, George C. Nimmons, and Max Dunning; and the western half by Nimmons and Dunning alone. At 474 ft (144 m) tall and encompassing the entire block between Lake Shore Drive and McClurg Court, it was the largest building in the world when it was completed.

Architecture
Construction of the American Furniture Mart was undertaken in two phases: the eastern section was completed in 1923, and the western portion (including the tower) in 1926. The eastern half is constructed with reinforced concrete, whereas the western half, as well as the tower, is steel. A 1959 newspaper story, based on reminiscences by the building's president, claimed the building included provisions for mooring airships, but nothing about airships appears in the descriptions of the building when it was being planned or built.

The building was converted by David L. Paul into condominium and office space between 1979-84. Paul hired Lohan Associates, Inc. to be one of two architects. The design concept was Paul's. It is now home to 415 condo units divided amongst the building's three separate condominium associations: the Tower, the Lake, and the South residences. There is also  of commercial office space,  of retail space, and seven levels of indoor parking.

History
During its early decades as the American Furniture Mart, the building's address was 666 North Lake Shore Drive. In 1984, Chemical Bank filed a foreclosure action against David Paul, which Chemical eventually won. Chemical announced that it would change the building's address from 666 N. Lake Shore Drive to 680 N. Lake Shore Drive effective May 1, 1988, officially as a way of dissociating the building from its past financial problems. There was speculation that the address change was intended to remove the stigma of the building having the number "666", as in the Number of the Beast from the Book of Revelation, or at the insistence of Playboy Enterprises which at the time was considering a move to the building. Representatives of both the building's management agent and Playboy denied that they were concerned about the use of that number in the address.

Later in 1988, a few months after the address change, Playboy Enterprises moved their corporate headquarters from its location in the Palmolive Building to the location at 680 N. Lake Shore Dr. Consequently, 680 became colloquially referred to as the "New Playboy Building". Playboy moved all of their offices out of this building in 2012, and the Playboy sign was taken down from the Erie Street entrance to the building.

Another notable tenant was radio station WCFL (AM). They had their studios here from 1931 until 1964. At that time, they relocated broadcast facilities to Marina City, where they stayed for the next 25 years.

, much of the building's office space is leased to medical tenants. The commercial portion of the building was sold to TopMed Realty in 2017 for $109.5 million.

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Skyscraper office buildings in Chicago
Commercial buildings completed in 1923
Commercial buildings completed in 1926
Residential condominiums in Chicago
Residential skyscrapers in Chicago
1923 establishments in Illinois

680 N Lake Shore Drive


Giupponia is a monotypic genus of the harvestman family Gonyleptidae. The only described species, G. chagasi, was found in two limestone caves in Serra do Ramalho, Bahia State, Brazil.

The long-legged species features several adaptations to cave life, such as complete eyelessness and lack of pigmentation.

Name
The genus and species are named after arachnologist Alessandro Ponce de Leão Giupponi and myriapodologist Amazonas Chagas Júnior, respectively.

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Harvestman genera
Monotypic arachnid genera
Arachnids of South America
Cave arachnids

Giupponia