All-Union Exhibition «Physical education and Sport in a fine art» was opened in Moscow.
The Grand Exhibition of Soviet Fine Art was opened in Warsaw, Poland.
The Anniversary Exhibition of pictures of Abram Arkhipov, to the 100 year from the day of birth, was opened in the halls of Academy of arts in Leningrad.
November 21 — The All-Russian Exhibition of the decorative and applied art was opened in the State Russian Museum in Leningrad. Were exhibited 4200 works of 800 authors.[5]
Solo exhibition of works devoted Cuba, of Leningrad artist Vladimir Frentz, was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists. About 50 drawings were presented. As wrote newspapers, an author conducted a few months on Cuba and now works above the series of pictures.[8]
Deaths
February 27 — Vladimir Konashevich (Russian: Конашевич Владимир Михайлович), Russian Soviet graphic artists, Honored Art worker of Russian Federation (born 1888).
May 20 — Vasili Rozhdestvensky (Russian: Рождественский Василий Васильевич), Russian Soviet painter and graphic artists (born 1884).
June 14 — Georgy Motovilov (Russian: Мотовилов Георгий Иванович), Russian Soviet sculptor, Stalin Prize winner (born 1884).
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Directory of Members of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Artists of Russian Federation. Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1980.
Artists of Peoples of the USSR. Biography Dictionary. Vol. 4 Book 1. Moscow, Iskusstvo, 1983.
Directory of Members of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Artists of Russian Federation. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1987.
Artists of peoples of the USSR. Biography Dictionary. Vol. 4 Book 2. - Saint Petersburg: Academic project humanitarian agency, 1995.
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Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915 - 2005. Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007.