The year 1983 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.

Events

• Traditional Exhibition of works of Leningrad artists - the Great Patriotic war veterans was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists on the eve of Victory Day (9 May). The participants were Piotr Alberti, Ivan Andreev, Andrei Bantikov, Nikolai Baskakov, Vladimir Chekalov, Evgeny Chuprun, Mikhail Grachev, Alexei Eriomin, Mikhail Kaneev, Yuri Khukhrov, Maya Kopitseva, Elena Kostenko, Gevork Kotiantz, Mikhail Kozell, Boris Lavrenko, Dmitry Maevsky, Gavriil Malish, Evsey Moiseenko, Nikolai Mukho, Piotr Nazarov, Anatoli Nenartovich, Yuri Neprintsev, Dmitry Oboznenko, Sergei Osipov, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Evgeny Pozdniakov, Gleb Savinov, Alexander Shmidt, German Tatarinov, Nikolai Timkov, Ivan Varichev, Anatoli Vasiliev, Piotr Vasiliev, Nikolai Volodimirov, Rostislav Vovkushevsky, Vecheslav Zagonek, Ruben Zakharian, and other important Leningrad artists.^[1]
• Exhibition of works by Piotr Fomin was opened in the Russian museum in Leningrad.^[2]
• Painter Boris Ugarov was elected President of the Academy of Arts of the USSR.^[3]
• Exhibition of works by Mikhail Natarevich (1907–1979) was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.^[4]
• Exhibition of works by Leonid Tkachenko was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.^[5]
• Exhibition of works by Sergei Osipov was opened in the Exhibition Halls of the Union of Artists of Russian Federation in Moscow.^[6]

Gallery

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  Cornflowers. 1976

Deaths

• March 6 — Mikhail Kaneev (Russian: Канеев Михаил Александрович), Russian soviet painter and art educator, Honored Art worker of Russian Federation (born 1923).
• March 29 — Mikhail Kopeykin (Russian: Копейкин Михаил Семёнович), Russian soviet painter and art educator (born 1905).
• April 6 — Nikolai Babasuk (Russian: Бабасюк Николай Лукич), Russian soviet painter and art educator (born 1914).
• April 27 — Yuri Tulin (Russian: Тулин Юрий Нилович), Russian soviet painter and graphic artist, Honored Art worker of Russian Federation, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (born 1921).
• November 16 — Samuil Nevelshtein (Russian: Невельштейн Самуил Григорьевич), soviet painter and graphic artist (born 1903).
• November 18 — Georgy Kalinkin (Russian: Калинкин Георгий Алексеевич), Russian soviet painter and graphic artist (born 1915).
• November 24 — Anatoli Yar-Kravchenko, (Russian: ru:Яр-Кравченко, Анатолий Никифорович), Russian soviet painter and graphic artist, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Stalin Prize winner (born 1911).