Nikolay Nekrasov, Bronze memorial bust in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The Nekrasov monument is a bronze bust 0.77 m high on a 2.3 m pedestal of dark grey labradorite, itself set on a red granite base in the square by 37 Liteyny Prospekt. The poet wears a coat with a visible collar and buttoned front; his brows are drawn together. Bronze letters on the front read "N. A. Nekrasov" above the dates 1821-1877.

Sculptor V. V. Lishev made this bust as his second work under Lenin's plan of monumental propaganda; the bronze was cast by V. Z. Gavrilov at the First State Artistic Casting Workshop. It was unveiled in 1922 in the Prudki garden at the corner of Nekrasov Street and Greek Avenue. In 1946, for the poet's 125th birthday, it was moved to the square by house No. 37 on Liteyny Avenue, opposite No. 36, where Nekrasov lived his last 20 years and where a memorial flat-museum opened that same year.

The square where the bust stands appears in Nekrasov's poem "Reflections at the Front Door," inspired by the house at No. 37, once owned by the minister of state properties. The memorial keeps that literary link visible in the neighbourhood.

The bust stands in the square beside 37 Liteyny Prospekt, diagonally across from house 36, where Nekrasov lived his last 20 years and where his memorial flat-museum opened in 1946. The square is reached on foot from the Liteyny Prospekt axis; the bust faces forward at eye level above a 2.3 m pedestal, so the inscription and dates read clearly from the path.

The bust is the only surviving monument in Saint Petersburg erected under Lenin's plan of monumental propaganda. Sculptor V. V. Lishev made it as his second work for that programme, after a plaster bust of Karl Marx in Novaya Ladoga that has since been lost. The bronze was cast by master V. Z. Gavrilov at the First State Artistic Casting Workshop.