Memorial and historical complex in the village of Kargin Bukovskogo district, Rostov region is one of the local attractions. It was here that she spent her childhood and adolescent years of the famous writer M. A. Sholokhov. Here he began his literary career and published the first books.

Sholokhov's family moved moved to the village in 1910 At the time on the farm was 260 yards and the Church of the intercession. In Kargin worked a couple of mills. Most of them belonged to T. A. Kargin. Two-storey mill on the Bank of the Chira with oil mill, a blacksmith shop, metal workshop, spacious savoschenko, where he spent the night visitors, was known not only in the vicinity of the village, but also in the neighboring provinces. This mill has portrayed the writer in his novel "the Quiet don".

In 1912, the writer gave the male parochial school, and in 1914 he was taken to Moscow for training in the gymnasium named after G. Shelaputin. After he continued his studies in Boguchar and in Vyoshenskaya. In 1920 in the village Kargin the Soviets came to power. M. A. Sholokhov went to serve in Stanichno the Council. In 1924 Mikhail Alexandrovich brought in the village of his wife. The family settled in the family home in the large room that served as the writer's study. It was here that he wrote of "the Don stories" and the first pages of the famous novel "the Quiet don". In 1926 Sholokhov's family moved left Kargin.

The architecture of the house Sholokhov, who they acquired in 1919, is a typical building of the early XX century, typical don. Walls built of Adobe, reed roof. The house has two rooms, a kitchen and a porch. The decor of the house was restored for the period 1924-1926, Also in the village Kargin up to the present day remained parochial school, where in 1912-1914 the writer studied. The building of a steam mill Kargina, parochial schools and home Sholokhov are the main objects Kargin memorial and historical complex.