Monument to Mikhail Sholokhov in Moscow, Bronze monument on Gogolevsky Boulevard, Moscow, Russia.

The Monument to Mikhail Sholokhov on Gogolevsky Boulevard is a bronze sculpture of the writer seated in a Don boat, wearing a padded jacket, with his oars cast aside as he looks into the distance. Behind the boat, granite horses swim the opposite way, fanning out in a wedge. Boat and slab tilt toward the boulevard's pedestrian zone, and the dark plinth below bears the raised inscription "МИХАИЛУ ШОЛОХОВУ".

A competition for the monument was won two decades before it was built by Iulian Rukavishnikov, who planned it for Zubovskaya Square, but the project stalled. In the 2000s his son Alexander completed the seated figure and, with architect Igor Voskresensky, won again; the monument opened on 24 May 2007 beside house 10 on Gogolevsky Boulevard. Sholokhov's relatives supplied photographs and advice.

The granite horses behind the boat swim in the opposite direction and fan out in a wedge, a symbol of Russia splitting into the Red and White camps during the Civil War. The writer's relatives helped sculptor Alexander Rukavishnikov with photographs and advice. Muscovites nickname the horse heads "the meat plant" and "the pet cemetery".

The monument stands by house 10 on Gogolevsky Boulevard, next to the Artists' Union building, and the boat and horse slab tilt toward the boulevard's pedestrian zone. The fountain feeding water onto the horse heads is switched off periodically, so the bronze may be dry. Sholokhov faces Sivtsev Vrazhek, where he once lived.

The granite horses behind the boat swim in the opposite direction and fan out in a wedge, a design meant to mark Russia's split into Red and White camps during the Civil War. The fountain that once fed water onto the horse heads is switched on only periodically.