1959 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
The year 1959 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.

Events

 Solo Exhibition of works by Yaroslav Nikolaev was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.
 The traveling exhibition of works by Yuri Neprintsev shown in Leningrad, Moscow, Sverdlovsk, Gorky, Saratov.
 In Kaliningrad on the Kalinin square at the railway station is opened a bronze monument to Mikhail Kalinin, sculptor Boris Edunov.
 Solo Exhibition of works by Piotr Belousov was opened in the City painting gallery in the Vologda.
 The traveling exhibition of works by Leningrad artists opened in Murmansk. The participants included Irina Baldina, Vsevolod Bazhenov, Nikolai Galakhov, Alexei Eriomin, Mikhail Kaneev, Maya Kopitseva, Alexander Koroviakov, Gavriil Malish, Evsey Moiseenko, Boris Shamanov, Elena Skuin, Victor Teterin, Yuri Tulin and Vecheslav Zagonek.

Deaths
 May 26 — Vasiliy Kuchumov (), Russian soviet painter and graphic artists (born 1888).
 November 3 — Fiodor Bogorodskiy (), Russian soviet painter and graphic artists, Honored art worker of Russian Federation, Stalin Prize winner (born 1895).
 December 29 — Alexei Kokorekin (), Russian soviet graphic artists, Honored art worker of Russian Federation, Stalin Prize winner (born 1906).

Gallery of 1959

See also
 List of Russian artists
 List of painters of Leningrad Union of Artists
 Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
 Russian culture
 1959 in the Soviet Union

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