| 1931 | — | A.B.Soktoev was born on the 23rd of February, in ulus of Alzobyei, Alar aimak (county) of Irkutsk region |
| 1948 | — | He finished high school in Golumyet village |
| 1948-1953 | — | The student of East faculty of the Leningrad State University. At the same time, he started working in A.Ya.Vaganova Choreographic School as the tutor-teacher of the Buryat student group |
| 1953 | — | He graduated with honour from the Leningrad State University |
| 1953-1956 | — | Post-graduate student of V.I.Lenin Moscow State Pedagogical Institute |
| 1956 | — | In V.I.Lenin MSPI, he defended the PhD thesis that was titled «Prose of KHots Namsarayev» and he got the scientific degree of Cand.Phil.Sci. |
| 1956 | — | In October, A.B.Soktoev came to Ulan-Ude and started working in the D.Banzarov Buryat State Pedagogical Institute, first as the assistant, and then the senior teacher |
| 1959-1965 | — | He headed the sub-faculty of the Russian and foreign literature in the Buryat State Pedagogical Institute |
| 1966-1970 | — | He switched to work in the department of literary criticism and folklore studies of the Institute of Social Studies of the Buryat Branch of the SB AS USSR, at the position of senior research associate |
| 1970-1974 | — | He is the Scientific Secretary of Presidium of the Buryat Branch of SB AS USSR |
| 1975-1983 | — | He headed a sector, then the department of literary criticism, folklore studies, and art criticism. He was at the position of the deputy director of the Buryat Institute of social studies of SB AS USSR |
| 1977 | — | A Decree of Presidium of the Supreme Council of Buryat ASSR granted him the honorary title of «The Honored science worker of Buryat ASSR» |
| 1978 | — | In M.Gorki Institute of the World Literature, he defended the doctor's degree thesis that was titled «A formative stage of Buryatiya fiction during the pre-October period», which made him get a scientific degree of Doctor of Philology |
| 1983-1991 | — | He headed the sector of folklore of the SB AS USSR Institute of History, Philology, and Philosophy |
| 1990 | — | On December 14, General Assembly of AS USSR granted him the honorary title of corresponding member of AS USSR |
| 1991 | — | On September 24, the Decree of the President of RSFSR granted him the honorary title of «The Honoured worker of science of RSFSR» |
| 1993 | — | On June 15, the Decree of Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation awarded him the Certificate of Honour of Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation |
| 1991-1998 | — | He is the director of the Institute of Philology of the United Institute of History, Philology, and Philosophy of SB RAS |
| 1998 | — | He died on July 3rd, in Novosibirsk |
| 2002 | — | On August 5, the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation granted the State Premium of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology to A.B.Soktoev for a cycle of works from a series «Folklore monuments of peoples from Siberia and the Far East» (for the development of the concept of the academic publication and for its realization in 18 volumes that came out to public), posthumously |
