1964 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
The year 1964 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.

Events
 Exhibition the "Heroic defensive of Leningrad in the years of Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945" was opened in the State Russian Museum in Leningrad.
 Solo Exhibition of works by Mikhail Bobyshov was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.

 November 3 — "The Leningrad" Zonal Fine Art Exhibition was opened in the State Russian Museum in Leningrad and in the exhibition halls of the Leningrad Union of Artists. The participants were Piotr Alberti, Evgenia Antipova, Taisia Afonina, Irina Baldina, Nikolai Baskakov, Evgenia Baykova, Vsevolod Bazhenov, Yuri Belov, Piotr Belousov, Olga Bogaevskaya, Piotr Buchkin, Zlata Bizova, Vladimir Chekalov, Sergei Frolov, Nikolai Galakhov, Vasily Golubev, Tatiana Gorb, Abram Grushko, Alexei Eriomin, Mikhail Kaneev, Yuri Khukhrov, Mikhail Kozell, Marina Kozlovskaya, Tatiana Kopnina, Maya Kopitseva, Boris Korneev, Alexander Koroviakov, Elena Kostenko, Nikolai Kostrov, Anna Kostrova, Gevork Kotiantz, Yaroslav Krestovsky, Valeria Larina, Boris Lavrenko, Ivan Lavsky, Piotr Litvinsky, Oleg Lomakin, Dmitry Maevsky, Gavriil Malish, Evsey Moiseenko, Nikolai Mukho, Piotr Nazarov, Vera Nazina, Mikhail Natarevich, Anatoli Nenartovich, Yuri Neprintsev, Dmitry Oboznenko, Sergei Osipov, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Nikolai Pozdneev, Alexander Pushnin, Galina Rumiantseva, Ivan Savenko, Gleb Savinov, Vladimir Sakson, Alexander Samokhvalov, Vladimir Seleznev, Arseny Semionov, Alexander Semionov, Yuri Shablikin, Boris Shamanov, Alexander Shmidt, Nadezhda Shteinmiller, Elena Skuin, Galina Smirnova, Alexander Sokolov, Ivan Sorokin, Victor Teterin, Nikolai Timkov, Mikhail Tkachev, Mikhail Trufanov, Yuri Tulin, Vitaly Tulenev, Ivan Varichev, Anatoli Vasiliev, Piotr Vasiliev, Valery Vatenin, Lazar Yazgur, Vecheslav Zagonek, Sergei Zakharov, Ruben Zakharian, and other important Leningrad artists.
 In eve celebration of 47th Anniversary of October revolution of 1917, the Regional Fine Art Exhibitions were opened in Moscow, Sverdlovsk, Rostov-on-Don, Novosibirsk, Voronezh.
 The Grand Exhibition of Soviet Fine Art was opened in Genoa, Italy.
 Joint Exhibition of works of artists Nikolai Timkov and Samuil Nevelshtein was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists. Then an exhibition was rotined in Moscow, Yaroslavl, Rostov-na-Don, Kislovodsk, Ordzhonikidze, Nalchik.
 The Grand Exhibition of Soviet Fine Art was opened in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
 The second All-union Convention of Artists of the USSR passed in Moscow.

Deaths
 July 7 — Mikhail Bobyshov (), Russian soviet painter, theatre and graphic artists, People's Artist of the Russian Federation (born 1885).
 July 30 — Alexander Bubnov (), Russian soviet painter, Honored Arts Worker of the RSFSR (born 1908).
 December 3 — Alexander Efimov (), Russian soviet painter (born 1905).
 December 29 — Vladimir Favorsky (), Russian soviet graphic artists, People's Artist of the Russian Federation (born 1886).

See also

 List of Russian artists
 List of painters of Leningrad Union of Artists
 Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
 Russian culture

References

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