Born in
Rostov-on-Don. Graduate of Rostov Art College and Moscow
State Art Institute named after Surikov (the last in
1968), where he studied from Dmitry Zhilinsky and Aleksey
Gritzay.Member of the USSR Union of Artists. Lived and worked in Moscow. Since 1969 had participated in Moscow and all-Union exhibitions as painter and monumental artist; had some experience as sculptor as well.
His one-man show was mounted in Moscow in 1988: another one - in 1991 in Frankfurt-on-Main (Germany).
Okorokov's artworks make part of Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Serpukhov, Art Museum of Izhevsk and private collections in Russia, Germany, USA, Sweden. Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria.
Died in 1992 in Moscow.