People's Artist of the Russian Federation
Boris Mikhailovich Lavrenko (; 6 May 1920, in Rostov-on-Don, Soviet Russia – 7 June 2001, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, professor of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad), regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.