Sergey Leonidovich Sholokhov (Russian: Серге́й Леони́дович Шо́лохов; born September 27, 1958, Leningrad) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) journalist, Candidate of Art Sciences, and winner of the national competition of the press, Golden Pen '96 (Journalist of the Year). 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.