окружение (в социальносм смысле)

[MarinaGoncharenko]

Встретилось в тексте о Паустовском - "одесское окружение писателя - Вера Инбер, Кириак Костанди и др."
"Окружение" здесь - неужели surrounding? или лучше перефразировать? но как - "Paustovsky's social network in Odessa"?:))))))

[helga_fun]

может сказать, что вот эти вот лица surroounded him
или
he was surrounded by/he was among эти лица

[NC1]

Social circle?

[Maksym Kozub]

Как вариант, milieu.

http://www.jiffynotes.com/a_study_guides/book_notes_add/mtcw_04/mtcw_04_00840.html :
"As a child growing up at Knole, her social milieu included people of noble birth and wealth, including Rudyard Kipling, Auguste Rodin, Pierpont Morgan, William Waldorf Astor, and Henry Ford."

[foxtrot]

consider:
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social setting
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one's immediate environment
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a bunch of people he knew/ bunch of people close to him

[nephew]

his circle

[justboris]

sided with nephew/NC1