Sergey Sholokhov

Sergey Sholokhov, 67, died on July 18, 2026. Sergey Sholokhov was known publicly as a Russian film critic. Sergey Leonidovich Sholokhov (Russian: Серге́й Леони́дович Шо́лохов; born September 27, 1958, Leningrad) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) journalist. He is a Candidate of Art Sciences and winner of the Golden Pen '96 (Journalist of the Year) and Academician of the Academy Nika Award. He has been called one of the most authoritative film and theater critics of Russia. In 1991 Sholokhov and Sergey Kuryokhin broadcast the influential televised hoax Lenin was a mushroom. Since 1991 and 1992 he worked in the management School at Harvard University as a visiting researcher. Public biographical listings identify Sholokhov as a Russian film critic. This public record remains centered on Sholokhov's work as a Russian film critic and the documented milestones of that career.