Denkmal für Wiktor Zoi, Monument in Okulovka, Novgorod Oblast, Russia

The monument to Viktor Tsoi is a dismantlable bronze-toned sculpture of the musician seated on a 1961 Jawa motorcycle with a broken headlight. Tsoi wears sunglasses and rolled-up sleeves, and his feet are bare. It measures 1.89 m high, 2.74 m long and 1.40 m wide, weighs about half a tonne, and stands on a square by Okulovka's railway station.

Sculptor Alexei Blagovestnov made the work in 2002 as a diploma project at Moscow's Surikov Institute; it won first prize in the 2004 Tretyakov competition for young artists. After displays in Moscow and Khanty-Mansiysk, it was shown on 21 July 2009 on Nevsky Prospect by the Aurora cinema, without city approval, and removed the next day. On 17 October 2015 it was unveiled by Okulovka's railway station.

The monument shows Viktor Tsoi with sunglasses, rolled-up sleeves and bare feet, seated on a 1961 Jawa motorcycle with a broken headlight. Sculptor Alexei Blagovestnov based the pose on a bar scene from the film "The Needle". The bare feet, he explained, make the artist vulnerable: one can step on them and cause pain that is not only physical.

The sculpture is located at Okulovka train station and is easily accessible, especially for visitors arriving by train. The site is open and exposed to the elements, so visiting during fair weather is more comfortable.

The figure sits on a motorcycle that symbolizes power and rising above the crowd, yet Viktor Tsoi actually preferred driving cars. This artistic choice makes the monument a creative interpretation of his legacy rather than a literal biography.