1956 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

Events

• February 13 - "Exhibition of works of Soviet artists of 1917-1956" was opened in Tretyakov gallery in Moscow. The participants were Mikhail Avilov, Aleksandr Gerasimov, Aleksandr Deyneka, Vecheslav Zagonek, Boris Ioganson, Engels Kozlov, Alexander Laktionov, Arkady Plastov, Mikhail Trufanov, and other important Soviet artists.
• The Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin graduated Engels Kozlov, Nikolai Pozdneev, Piotr Nazarov, Anatoli Nenartovich, and other famous artists in the future.
• The "Spring Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1956" was opened in Exhibition Halls of the Leningrad Union of Artists. The participants were Evgenia Antipova, Irina Baldina, Vladimir Gorb, Alexei Eriomin, Maya Kopitseva, Gevork Kotiantz, Boris Lavrenko, Ivan Lavsky, Dmitry Maevsky, Gavriil Malish, Nikolai Mukho, Lev Orekhov, Sergei Osipov, Lev Russov, Ivan Savenko, Arseny Semionov, Alexander Semionov, Yuri Shablikin, Alexander Shmidt, Elena Skuin, Nikolai Timkov, Leonid Tkachenko, Yuri Tulin, Piotr Vasiliev, Vecheslav Zagonek, Ruben Zakharian, and other important Leningrad artists.
• The "Fifth All-Union Exhibition of graduate works of students of art institutes of the USSR issue of 1956" was opened in Moscow. The participants were Engels Kozlov, Nikolai Pozdneev, Piotr Nazarov, Anatoli Nenartovich, and other young artists.
• December 5 - The "Autumn Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1956" was opened in Exhibition Halls of the Leningrad Union of Artists. The participants were Piotr Alberti, Taisia Afonina, Vsevolod Bazhenov, Irina Baldina, Nikolai Baskakov, Yuri Belov, Piotr Belousov, Piotr Buchkin, Sergei Frolov, Nikolai Galakhov, Vladimir Gorb, Abram Grushko, Alexei Eriomin, Mikhail Kaneev, Marina Kozlovskaya, Tatiana Kopnina, Maya Kopitseva, Boris Korneev, Alexander Koroviakov, Elena Kostenko, Nikolai Kostrov, Anna Kostrova, Gevork Kotiantz, Yaroslav Krestovsky, Ivan Lavsky, Oleg Lomakin, Dmitry Maevsky, Gavriil Malish, Alexei Mozhaev, Nikolai Mukho, Samuil Nevelshtein, Sergei Osipov, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Lev Russov, Ivan Savenko, Gleb Savinov, Vladimir Seleznev, Alexander Semionov, Arseny Semionov, Yuri Shablikin, Boris Shamanov, Alexander Shmidt, Nadezhda Shteinmiller, Victor Teterin, Nikolai Timkov, Mikhail Tkachev, Mikhail Trufanov, Yuri Tulin, Piotr Vasiliev, Igor Veselkin, Rostislav Vovkushevsky, Vecheslav Zagonek, Ruben Zakharian, Sergei Zakharov, and other important Leningrad artists.
• Solo Exhibition of works by Alexander Savinov was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.
• Solo Exhibition of works by Samuil Nevelshtein was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.

  Born

• September 18 — Victor Lyapkalo, Russian painter.

  Deaths

• February 2 — Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian Soviet painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
• February 18 — Kliment Red'ko, Russian Soviet painter.
• April 23 — Ivan Shulga, Russian Soviet painter, graphic artist, and art educator.
• September 26 — Yuly Bershadsky, Russian Soviet painter and art educator.
• October 27 — Piotr Miturich, Russian Soviet painter and art critic.
• December 3 — Alexander Rodchenko, Russian Soviet artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer, one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design.
• December 7 — Alexei Zakolodin-Mitin, Russian Soviet painter and art educator.
• December 27 — Rudolf Frentz, Russian Soviet artist and art educator, professor of the Repin Institute of Arts, a head of the Studio of Battle painting.
• December 28 — Ivan Puni, Russian avant-garde artist.