1984 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

Events

Exhibition of Leningrad artists dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the enemy blockade was opened in the halls of the Leningrad Union of Artists. The participants were Victor Abramyan, Ivan Andreev, Evgenia Baykova, Andrei Bantikov, Nikolai Baskakov, Lev Bogomolets, Dmitry Buchkin, Alexander Gulajev, Krum Dzhakov, Alexei Eremin, Sergei Frolov, Elena Zhukova, Georgy Kalinkin, Boris Korneev, Elena Kostenko, Anna Kostrova, Boris Lavrenko, Oleg Lomakin, Alexander Lubimov, Dmitry Maevsky, Vladimir Malagis, Gavriil Malish, Evgeny Maltsev, Piotr Nazarov, Yuri Neprintsev, Yaroslav Nikolaev, Ludmila Ronchevskaya, Arseny Semionov, Igor Skorobogatov, Georgy Tatarnikov, Nikolai Timkov, Mikhail Tkachev, Yuri Tulin, Anatoli Vasiliev, Gleb Verner, Nikolai Volodimirov, Ruben Zakharian, and other important Leningrad artists.^[1]
Exhibition of works by Isaak Brodsky (1884–1939) dedicated to 100-year Anniversary was opened in the Museum of the Academy of Arts in Leningrad.^[2]
A Monument to Dmitry Mendeleev was unveiled in Tobolsk. Authors of the monument sculptor V. Nikiforov.
Exhibition of works by Marina Kozlovskaya was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.^[3]
Exhibition of works by Alexander Samokhvalov (1894–1971) dedicated to 90th Anniversary was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.^[4]
Exhibition of works by Maria Zubreeva and Sergei Zakharov was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.^[5]

Deaths

March 27 – Anatoli Kazantsev (Russian: Казанцев Анатолий Алексеевич), Russian soviet painter, graphic artist and art educator, Honored Art worker of Russian Federation (born 1908).
May 3 – Boris Kotik (Russian: Котик Борис Васильевич), Russian soviet painter and monumental artist (born 1921).
June 20 – Lydia Gagarina (Russian: Гагарина Лидия Ивановна), Russian soviet painter and graphic artist (born 1902).
June 23 – Alexander Semionov (Russian: Семёнов Александр Михайлович), Russian soviet painter (born 1922).
November 22 – Nikolai Tomsky, (Russian: Томский Николай Васильевич), Russian soviet sculptor, People's Artist of the USSR, Stalin Prize winner, Lenin Prize winner, USSR State Prize winner, Hero of Socialist Labour (born 1900).

Events