The year 1951 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.

Events

 Annual Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1951 was opened in the halls of the Leningrad Union of Artists. The participants were Piotr Alberti, Vladislav Anisovich, Vladimir Avlas, Nikolai Babasuk, Vsevolod Bazhenov, Piotr Belousov, Olga Bogaevskaya, Piotr Buchkin, Rudolf Frentz, Nikolai Galakhov, Vladimir Gorb, Tatiana Kopnina, Nikolai Kostrov, Anna Kostrova, Alexander Lubimov, Evsey Moiseenko, Mikhail Natarevich, Yuri Neprintsev, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Sergei Osipov, Alexander Pushnin, Ivan Savenko, Gleb Savinov, Alexander Samokhvalov, Vladimir Seleznev, Alexander Shmidt, Nadezhda Shteinmiller, Nikolai Timkov, Leonid Tkachenko, Mikhail Tkachev, Yuri Tulin, Igor Veselkin, Nina Veselova, Rostislav Vovkushevsky, Vecheslav Zagonek, and other important Leningrad artists.
 May 9 — a monument to the Hero of the Great Patriotic war a soldier Alexander Matrosov (1924–1943) was unveiled in Ufa. Authors of the monument sculptor L. Adlyn and A. Gribov.
 November 22 — Fine Art Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1951 opened in the State Russian museum. The participants were David Alkhovsky, Nikolai Babasuk, Vsevolod Bazhenov, Olga Bogaevskaya, Lev Bogomolets, Vitaly Valtsev, Vasily Vikulov, Igor Veselkin, Nina Veselova, Rostislav Vovkushevsky, Vecheslav Zagonek, Lev Volshtein, Yakov Golubev, Vladimir Gorb, Sergei Zakharov, Ruben Zakharian, Nina Ivanova, Piotr Ivanovsky, Anatoli Kazantsev, Georgy Kalinkin, Nikolai Kostrov, Anna Kostrova, Felix Lembersky, Israil Lizak, Vladimir Malagis, Yevsey Moiseenko, Andrei Mylnikov, Mikhail Natarevich, Yuri Neprintsev, Yaroslav Nikolaev, Sergei Osipov, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Pen Varlen, Yuri Podlasky, Gleb Savinov, Alexander Samokhvalov, Joseph Serebriany, Nikolai Timkov, Yuri Tulin, Rudolf Frentz, and other important Leningrad artists.
 Stalin Prize winner of 1951 in the area of Fine Arts were painter Boris Ioganson,  (for painting «Appearance of Lenin on III convention of Komsomol», Tretyakov gallery), sculptor Sergei Merkurov (for monument to Joseph Stalin in Yerevan), Kukryniksy, painter Dmitriy Nalbandyan (for painting «The Great Friendship»), sculptor Vera Mukhina (for sculpture «We demand Peace»).

Deaths
 November 8 — Veniamin Belkin, (), Russian soviet painter and graphic artist (born 1884).

See also
 List of Russian artists
 List of painters of Leningrad Union of Artists
 Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
 Russian culture
 1951 in the Soviet Union

References

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