Viktor Oreshnikov
Viktor Mikhailovich Oreshnikov (; 20 January 1904, Perm – 15 March 1987, Leningrad) was a Soviet and Russian painter, People's Painter of the USSR, active member of the Soviet Academy of Arts (1954–1987), Stalin Prize winner, rector of Repin Institute of Arts (1953–1978).

Biography 
In 1927 he graduated from the Leningrad VHUTEIN in workshop of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. In 1930-1987 he taught in the Repin Institute of Arts. PhD in Art History (1937). Doctor of Fine Arts (1948).

Awards and honors 

 Two Stalin Prizes, 3rd class (1948, 1950)
 People's Painter of the RSFSR (1956)
 Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1957)
 Order of the Badge of Honour (1961)
 People's Painter of the USSR (1969)
 Order of Lenin (1974)
 Order of Friendship of Peoples (1984)
 Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
 Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
 Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"
 Medal "Veteran of Labour"

Pupils 
 Irina Getmanskaya
 Boris Korneev
 Alexander Koroviakov
 Elena Kostenko
 Victor Otiev
 Nikolai Pozdneev
 Maria Rudnitskaya
 Aleksandr Sokolov
 Rostislav Vovkushevsky

Sources 
 Выставка произведений ленинградских художников. 1947 год. Живопись. Скульптура. Графика. Театрально-декорационная живопись. Каталог. Л., ЛССХ, 1948.
 Бойков В. Изобразительное искусство Ленинграда. Заметки о выставке ленинградских художников. // Ленинградская правда, 1947, 29 ноября.
 Аникушин М. О времени и о себе. // Вечерний Ленинград, 1967, 17 октября.
 Изобразительное искусство Ленинграда. Каталог выставки. — Л: Художник РСФСР, 1976. — с.25,40.
 Выставка произведений ленинградских художников, посвященная 60-летию Великого Октября. — Л: Художник РСФСР, 1982. — с.18.
 Виктор Михайлович Орешников. Каталог выставки. Живопись. М: Изобразительное искусство, 1985.
 L' École de Leningrad. Auction Catalogue. - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 12 Mars 1990. - p. 100-101.
 L' École de Leningrad. Auction Catalogue. - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 11 Juin 1990. - p. 60-61.
 Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.9, 15, 19, 356, 358, 359, 362, 367–371, 383–385, 387–392, 396, 398, 399, 402, 406, 441, 443, 444. , .

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1904 births
1987 deaths
20th-century Russian painters
People from Perm, Russia
Full Members of the USSR Academy of Arts
Members of the Leningrad Union of Artists
Repin Institute of Arts alumni
People's Artists of the RSFSR (visual arts)
People's Artists of the USSR (visual arts)
Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the Stalin Prize
Leningrad School artists
Socialist realist artists
Russian genre painters
Russian landscape painters
Russian male painters
Russian portrait painters

Russian poster artists
Russian still life painters
Soviet painters
Soviet poster artists