The year 1957 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian fine arts. Events February 23 - "Exhibition of paintings, sculpture, drawing to the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Artists" was opened in Moscow. The participants were Aleksandr Gerasimov, Alexander Deyneka, Sergei Zakharov, Pavel Korin, Evsey Moiseenko, Mikhail Natarevich, Ivan Savenko, Gleb Savinov, Boris Ioganson, Alexander Laktionov, Arkady Plastov, Nikolai Timkov, Victor Teterin, Yuri Tulin and other important Soviet artists. February 28 - The First All-Union Congress of Soviet Artists has been opened in Moscow. Congress established a single Union of Artists of the USSR and elected its executive bodies - the Board and a Secretariat. The system of Union of Artists of the USSR included unions of artists of Union and Autonomous republics, as well as local organizations of artists of some regions, provinces and cities. The Union worked to improve the professional skills of its members, promoting their creativity, organized and financed the creative work of artists. Congress established the new publications of the Union of Artists of the USSR: Magazines "Creativity" and "Decorative Arts of the USSR." The jurisdiction of the Union of Artists of the USSR were also Exhibitions Division, Experimental Studio, the Art Fund of the USSR, publishing house "Soviet Artist". June 19 - The Monument to Alexander Pushkin, built by sculptor Mikhail Anikushin was inaugurated in Leningrad on the Square of Art in front of the State Russian Museum. July 20 - The Exhibition of works by young artists of the USSR for the VI World Festival of Youth and Students was opened in Moscow. Among the participants - Ilya Glazunov, Mikhail Kaneev, Piotr Litvinsky, Lev Russov, and other artists. October 3 - The Exhibition of Leningrad artists dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution was opened in Leningrad in the State Russian Museum. Its exponents were 600 artists, including Mikhail Anikushin, Evgenia Antipova, Vsevolod Bazhenov, Irina Baldina, Nikolai Baskakov, Piotr Belousov, Piotr Buchkin, Zlata Bizova, Vladimir Chekalov, Sergei Frolov, Nikolai Galakhov, Abram Grushko, Alexei Eriomin, Mikhail Kaneev, Engels Kozlov, Tatiana Kopnina, Maya Kopitseva, Boris Korneev, Alexander Koroviakov, Nikolai Kostrov, Anna Kostrova, Gevork Kotiantz, Yaroslav Krestovsky, Boris Lavrenko, Ivan Lavsky, Oleg Lomakin, Dmitry Maevsky, Gavriil Malish, Alexei Mozhaev, Evsey Moiseenko, Nikolai Mukho, Mikhail Natarevich, Samuil Nevelshtein, Dmitry Oboznenko, Lev Orekhov, Sergei Osipov, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Nikolai Pozdneev, Alexander Pushnin, Lev Russov, Galina Rumiantseva,