Monument to Grandpa Shchukar
Shore Street, 29, Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Region, Russia
Description:
The monument to Grandfather Shchukar, established in autumn 1981, is dedicated to the character of the literary work “Virgin Raised” by M.A. Sholokhov. It is located on the embankment of the city - on the corner of Semashko Avenue and Beregovoi Street.
The authors of the monument are honored artist of Ukraine and sculptor Nikolai Vasilyevich Mozhaev and architect Vitaly Ivanovich Voloshin. The idea of its creation arose in 1980, after Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor twice.
The monument is made of bronze and is a good-natured old man in Russian folk clothes, next to which a small cast iron hangs over a fire on a wooden tree like a knave.