1988 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
The year 1988 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.

Events
 Exhibition of works by Dmitry Belajev was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.
 Exhibition of works by Margarita Piskareva was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.
 Exhibition of works by Vasily Savinsky (1859–1937) was opened in the Museum of the Academy of Arts in Leningrad
 September 17 — In Voronezh on Prospekt of Revolution was unveiled a monument to Mitrofan Pyatnitsky (1864—1927), Russian Soviet musician, actor and collector of Russian folk songs, the founder and a first artistic director of the Pyatnitsky Choir. Authors of the monument sculptor Pack E., architect Dikunov I.
 January 8 — Exhibition of works by Nikolai Galakhov was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.
 Exhibition of works by Evgenia Antipova was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.
 Exhibition of works by Vladimir Ovchinnikov (1911–1978) was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.
 Exhibition of works by Victor Teterin was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.

Deaths
 January 1 — Anatoli Nenartovich (), Russian soviet painter (born 1915).
 March 13 — Vladimir Sakson (), Russian soviet painter and theatre artist (born 1927).
 May 5 — Nina Suzdaleva (), Russian soviet painter (born 1939).
 June 5 — Avenir Parkhomenko (), Russian soviet painter (born 1921).
 September 17 — Fiodor Smirnov, (), Russian soviet painter, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (born 1923).
 October 12 — Boris Utekhin (), Russian soviet painter (born 1910).
 October 20 — Vladimir Gorb (), Russian soviet painter, graphic artist, and art educator, Honored Art worker of the Russian Federation (born 1903).
 November 29 — Evsey Moiseenko, (), Russian soviet painter, graphic artist, and art educator, People's Artist of the USSR (born 1916).
 December 8 — Alexandra Chestnokova (), Russian soviet painter (born 1908).
 December 13 — Fyodor Reshetnikov, (), Russian soviet painter, People's Artist of the USSR (born 1906).

See also
 List of Russian artists
 List of painters of Leningrad Union of Artists
 Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
 Russian culture
 1988 in the Soviet Union

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