The year 1954 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.

Events 

 February 12 — Regional State picture gallery opened in city of Vologda. Works of prominent Russian and foreign artists are presented in collection of gallery. Among them George Dawe, Viktor Vasnetsov, Mikhail Nesterov, Mikhail Vrubel, Alexandre Benois, Aleksandr Borisov, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ivan Aivazovsky, Isaac Levitan, Vasily Vereshchagin, Ilya Repin, Vasily Polenov, and others. In collection are presented also paintings of the Vologda artists. The unique art gallery is in an area.
 The Spring exhibition of works by leningrad artists opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists. The participants were Evgenia Antipova, Nikolai Baskakov, Sergei Frolov, Nikolai Galakhov, Vladimir Gorb, Maya Kopitseva, Boris Korneev, Elena Kostenko, Anna Kostrova, Gevork Kotiantz, Valeria Larina, Boris Lavrenko, Ivan Lavsky, Gavriil Malish, Alexei Mozhaev, Nikolai Mukho, Samuil Nevelshtein, Yuri Neprintsev, Sergei Osipov, Lev Russov, Ivan Savenko, Vladimir Seleznev, Arseny Semionov, Alexander Shmidt, Elena Skuin, Victor Teterin, Nikolai Timkov, Mikhail Tkachev, Leonid Tkachenko, Vecheslav Zagonek, and other important Leningrad artists.
 June 6 — In Moscow on Tverskaya Square in front of Moscow City Hall was opened sculptural monument to the Moscow founder of Prince Yuri Dolgoruky. The monument sculptors S. Orlov, A. Antropov, N. Shtamm, architectural design V. Andreev.
 Chairman of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists was elected painter Joseph Serebriany, who held the position until 1957.
 The exhibition of Soviet art shows in the Chinese cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou. The participants were Yuri Neprintsev, Vecheslav Zagonek, Vladimir Serov, Boris Korneev, Alexander Laktionov, Ivan Savenko, Yuri Tulin, and other artists.

Deaths 
 April 14 — Mikhail Avilov (), Russian soviet painter, Honored art worker of Russian Federation, professor of Repin Institute of Arts (born 1882).
 June 28 — Veniamin Bogolubov (), Russian soviet sculptor, Stalin Prize winner (born 1895).
 December 5 — Solomon Yudovin (), Russian soviet graphic artists (born 1892).
 December 29 — Ivan Gorushkin-Sorokopudov (), Russian soviet painter and graphic artists, Honored art worker of Russian Federation (born 1873).

See also 
 List of Russian artists
 List of painters of Leningrad Union of Artists
 Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
 Russian culture
 1954 in the Soviet Union

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