Shortly after the end of the war Sholokhova marched in the Moscow Victory Parade with several other aviators from her regiment chosen to participate in it. Initially she remained in the air force and continued with an aviation career, reaching the rank of major before leaving in 1949. On one occasion she was tasked with breaking up an ice accumulation on the Neman river that was obstructing flow of the river and threatening the city of Kaunas with flooding; several other pilots tried and failed to complete it, but she bombed the ice target without any problems. Later she moved to the city of Gorky in 1953, which was later renamed Nizhny Novgorod, where she resided for the remainder of her life; she died there on 1 February 2001 and was buried in the Maryina Roshcha cemetery.