1975 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
# 1975 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

The year 1975 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.

## Events

* Exhibition of works by Alexander Samokhvalov (1894–1971) dedicated to 80th Anniversary was opened in the Russian museum.
* "Our Contemporary" Regional Art Exhibition of Leningrad artists was opened in the Russian museum. The participants were Evgenia Antipova, Taisia Afonina, Vsevolod Bazhenov, Irina Baldina, Nikolai Baskakov, Piotr Belousov, Olga Bogaevskaya, Veniamin Borisov, Zlata Bizova, Nikolai Galakhov, Vasily Golubev, Elena Gorokhova, Abram Grushko, Irina Dobrekova, Alexei Eriomin, Mikhail Kaneev, Yuri Khukhrov, Mikhail Kozell, Marina Kozlovskaya, Engels Kozlov, Maya Kopitseva, Boris Korneev, Elena Kostenko, Nikolai Kostrov, Anna Kostrova, Gevork Kotiantz, Vladimir Krantz, Yaroslav Krestovsky, Boris Lavrenko, Oleg Lomakin, Dmitry Maevsky, Gavriil Malish, Evsey Moiseenko, Piotr Nazarov, Vera Nazina, Mikhail Natarevich, Yuri Neprintsev, Samuil Nevelshtein, Dmitry Oboznenko, Sergei Osipov, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Nikolai Pozdneev, Alexander Pushnin, Galina Rumiantseva, Kapitolina Rumiantseva, Ivan Savenko, Gleb Savinov, Vladimir Sakson, Alexander Samokhvalov, Arseny Semionov, Alexander Semionov, Yuri Shablikin, Boris Shamanov, Alexander Shmidt, Nadezhda Shteinmiller, Elena Skuin, Galina Smirnova, Alexander Stolbov, Victor Teterin, Nikolai Timkov, Leonid Tkachenko, Mikhail Trufanov, Yuri Tulin, Vitaly Tulenev, Ivan Varichev, Anatoli Vasiliev, Igor Veselkin, Valery Vatenin, Lazar Yazgur, Vecheslav Zagonek, and other important Leningrad artists.
* Exhibition of works by Boris Korneev (1922–1974) was opened in the Museum of the Academy of Arts in Leningrad.

## Deaths

* 27 февраля — Oscar Klever (Russian: Клевер Оскар Юльевич), Russian soviet painter, graphic artist, and theatre artist (b. 1887).
* 1 марта — Sofia Zaklikovskaya (Russian: Закликовская Софья Людвиговна), Russian soviet painter and graphic artist (b. 1889).
* 15 марта — Vladimir Avlas (Russian: Авлас Владимир Дмитриевич), Russian soviet painter (b. 1904).
