1936 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
The year 1936 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian fine arts.

Events
 The first graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts after its reorganization in the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture under the All-Russian Academy of Arts.
 Retrospective Exhibition of works by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin was opened in Moscow and in Leningrad.
 November 17 — The Autumn Exhibition of Leningrad artists was opened in Russian museum. The participants were Victor Oreshnikov, Alexander Samokhvalov, Samuil Nevelshtein, Nikolai Kostrov, and other important Leningrad artists.

Births
 March 7 — Tamara Polosatova (), Russian Soviet painter.
 March 16 — Boris Kuznetsov (), Russian Soviet painter.
 December 31 — Victor Korovin (), Russian Soviet painter.

Deaths 
 February 23 — Sergey Chekhonin (), Russian Soviet graphic artist (b. 1878)

See also

 List of Russian artists
 List of painters of Leningrad Union of Artists
 Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
 Russian culture
 1936 in the Soviet Union

References

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 Directory of Members of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Artists of Russian Federation. Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1980.
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