Russian Academy of Arts

The Russian Academy of Arts is the successor to the USSR Academy of Arts , created in 1947 on the basis of the All-Russian Academy of Arts . After the collapse of the USSR, all the property of the USSR Academy of Arts was transferred to the Russian Academy of Arts, and the members of the USSR Academy of Arts were awarded the titles of full members and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Arts ^{[1] [2]} .

By its legal status, the Russian Academy of Arts is a federal state budgetary institution ^[3] .

“In striving for a new one and asserting the worthy position of contemporary Russian art in the world, the Academy of Arts retains its traditions and historical structure. Now it includes, as before, the departments of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. To them were added the departments of Graphics, Theater and Decorative Arts, Decorative and Applied Arts, Design, Art History and Art Criticism. Over its 250-year history, the Russian Academy of Arts has carried out artistic links between the center and the regions. This concerned the education of artists, the creation of local cultural centers, the development of architectural and monumental ensembles. Today, its regional branches operate in St. Petersburg, the Volga region, the Urals, Siberia and the Far East. In other words, the Academy’s activities today cover all types and genres of spatial arts in our country. ” ^[4]

Academic Art Education System

The Russian Academy of Arts is a state creative and scientific organization. Education is one of the main aspects of activity. Work is underway to preserve and creatively develop the traditions of the national academic school, to organize and improve the system of art education, the most important elements of Russian art education, the greatest value of Russian culture that has received international recognition, have been preserved and developed. In order to promote the creative development of the academic art school system, the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts created the Council for Art Education, which, in close collaboration with the Scientific and Methodological Department of the Academy and the leadership of academic institutions, coordinates issues of academic art education ^[5] .

Educational institutions of the Russian Academy of Arts:

• Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov
• St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I. E. Repin
• Moscow Academic Art Lyceum of the Russian Academy of Arts
• St. Petersburg Academic Art Lyceum. B.V. Johanson of the Russian Academy of Arts

Scientific Activities

Particular attention in the framework of research is paid to the relevant processes of interaction between the field of fine art, science and education on issues of an interdisciplinary nature and cross-cultural dialogue in the global art space ^[6] .

UNESCO Chair of Fine Arts and Architecture

The department was created in 1998 and entered the structure of the Russian Academy of Arts. Together with the sectors of culture and education of UNESCO, the UNESCO Chair of the Russian Academy of Arts, seeks to universal recognition of the importance of art education as a platform for sustainable development, development of creativity, innovation and cultural diversity. The department is headed by the national artist of CCCP and Russia, the president of the Russian Academy of Arts, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Zurab Tsereteli ^[7] .

Members of the Academy are full members (academics), corresponding members and honorary members (honorary academics), as well as foreign members ^{[8] [9] [10] [11]} .

Academy members are elected by the general meeting of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Membership in the Academy is lifelong .

The number of members of the Academy is established by the Government of the Russian Federation .

Elections of Academy members are held at least 1 time in 3 years ^[12] .

The Academy is built on the basis of scientific, industrial and territorial principles. The structure of the Academy includes:

• departments by type of creative and scientific activity :
  • Painting department (academician-secretary E.N. Maximov);
  • Sculpture Department (Academician-Secretary A.V. Tsigal );
  • Graphics Department (Academician-Secretary A. I. Teslik);
  • Department of Architecture (academician-secretary M.M. Posokhin );
  • Department of arts and crafts (academician-secretary L. I. Savelyeva );
  • Design Department (Academician-Secretary A. L. Bobykin);
  • Department of Art Criticism and Art Criticism (Academician-Secretary D.O. Shvidkovsky );
  • Department of Theater and Cinema Decoration (Academician-Secretary B. A. Messerer );
  • Department of Photography and Multimedia Technologies (Academician-Secretary A. L. Bobykin);
  • Department of the latest artistic movements (academician-secretary A. L. Bobykin);
• regional branches :
  • Southern branch (academician-secretary S.N. Oleshnya )
  • Volga branch (academician-secretary K.V. Khudyakov )
  • Branch Ural, Siberia, Far East (Academician-Secretary A.P. Levitin )

The supreme governing body of the Russian Academy of Arts is the general meeting of the Academy. Members of the general meeting of the Academy are full members and corresponding members . The general meeting of the Academy is convened by the Presidium of the Academy at the proposal of the President of the Academy at least once a year.

Between the general meetings, the work of the Russian Academy of Arts is led by the Presidium, headed by the President.

The Presidium of the Academy consists of the President and Vice-Presidents of the Academy, the Chief Scientific Secretary of the Presidium of the Academy, the Deputy Chief Scientific Secretary of the Presidium of the Academy, the Academic Secretaries of the Academy, the chairmen of the regional branches of the Academy and other members of the Academy.

The number of members of the Presidium of the Academy is determined by the general meeting of the Academy. The Presidium of the Academy is elected for a 5-year term. The distribution of duties between vice-presidents and members of the Academy Presidium is carried out by the President of the Academy.

The President of the Academy is elected by the general meeting of the Russian Academy of Arts from among its full members for a period of 5 years. The elected president of the Academy takes office after approval by the Government of the Russian Federation.

President of the Russian Academy of Arts :

• Hero of Socialist Labor, People's Artist of the USSR Z. K. Tsereteli .

Vice Presidents of the Russian Academy of Arts :

• Hero of Socialist Labor, People's Artist of the USSR T. T. Salakhov ,
• People's Artist of the RSFSR A. A. Bichukov
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation A. A. Lyubavin
• People's Architect of the Russian Federation M. M. Posokhin (Secretary of the Department of Architecture)
• Honored Artist of the RSFSR A. A. Zolotov
• Honored Artist of the RSFSR V. A. Lenyashin
• Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation D.O. Shvidkovsky (Secretary of the Department of Art Studies).
• Honored Artist of the Russian Federation A. L. Bobykin (Secretary of the Design Department)

Members of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts :

• People's Artist of the USSR V.I. Ivanov
• USSR People's Artist V. M. Sidorov ,
• People's Artist of the USSR A. M. Shilov ,
• People's Artist of the RSFSR A. I. Alekseev ,
• People's Artist of the RSFSR A.N. Burganov ,
• People's Artist of the RSFSR A.P. Levitin ,
• People's Artist of the RSFSR R. F. Fedorov ,
• People's Artist of the RSFSR O. M. Savostyuk ,
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation E. N. Maksimov (Academician-Secretary of the Painting Department),
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation L. I. Saveliev (Academician-Secretary of the Department of Decorative and Applied Arts),
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation A. G. Akritas ,
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation N. I. Borovskoy,
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation V. A. Glukhov ,
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation A.N. Kovalchuk ,
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation B. A. Messerer (Academician-Secretary of Theater and Cinema Decoration),
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation N. A. Mukhin ,
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation T. G. Nazarenko ,
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation V.I. Nesterenko ,
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation P.F. Nikonov ,
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation S. N. Oleshnya ,
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation S. P. Ossovsky,
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation A. I. Teslik,
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation A.V. Tsigal ,
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation A.S. Charkin ,
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation A. D. Shmarinov,
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation E.V. Romashko,
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation A. I. Rukavishnikov ,
• Honored Artist of the Russian Federation F. A. Rukavishnikov ,
• Honored Artist of the Russian Federation A. D. Borovsky ,
• Honored Artist of the Russian Federation K.V. Khudyakov ,
• Honored Artist of the Russian Federation V. G. Kalinin ,
• Honored Architect of the Russian Federation N. I. Shumakov ,
• Honored Artist of the RSFSR V.V. Vanslov ,
• Honored Artist of the Russian Federation O. A. Krivtsun,
• V.V. Rakcheev ,
• M. A. Busev,
• G. F. Kovalenko ,
• S.P. Kolov,
• A.N. Korotaeva,
• T. A. Kochemasova,
• M. B. Mindlin ,
• S. I. Mikhailovsky ,
• A.V. Morozov ,
• K.V. Petrov,
• Yu.P. Platonov ,
• A. I. Rozhin,
• A.T. Salakhova ,
• M.M. Fatkulin,
• O. R. Khromov,
• V.Z. Tsereteli ,
• E.Z. Tsereteli,
• A. G. Yastrebenetsky.

The following organizations are owned by the state as operational property rights for PAX:

• Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts ;
• Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov ;
• Moscow Academic Art Lyceum ;
• St. Petersburg State Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E. Repin ;
• St. Petersburg State Academic Art Lyceum named after B.V. Johanson
• Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts with branches:
  • museum-estate of Ilya Efimovich Repin "Penates"
  • Museum-apartment of Isaac Brodsky in the center of St. Petersburg ( Arts Square )
  • workshop department of Pavel Chistyakov
  • Arkhip Kuindzhi workshop department
  • museum-workshop of Sergey Konenkov
• Scientific Library
• Archives
• Creative workshops on various types of art.

• 1991 - 1997 - N. A. Ponomarev
• since 1997 - Z. K. Tsereteli

In 2009, the Russian Academy of Arts, with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, began publishing its own journal, ACADEMIA. ^[13] The magazine was created to inform the public about the activities of the Academy, as well as to popularize and increase interest in culture .

Previously, the Russian Academy of Arts, like the USSR Academy of Arts and the Imperial Academy of Arts , was most often criticized for conservatism. In recent years, the most complaints have been the formation of the composition of the RAX, in particular, the election of close relatives of the President and members of the Presidium of the RAX into its ranks ^[14] .

Academy of Arts of the USSR // Great Soviet Encyclopedia. - 1970.- T. 1 . - p . 325 .

• Imperial Academy of Arts
• Academy of Arts of the USSR
• Full members of the Russian Academy of Arts
• Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Arts
• Honorary Members of the Russian Academy of Arts
• Foreign Honorary Members of the Russian Academy of Arts
• Academy of Sciences in the Russian Federation
• State Academy of Sciences

• Official website of the Russian Academy of Arts
• Page PAX on the portal "Culture.rf"
• Svetlana Volodina. “... Observation of art education and upbringing in Russia.” // Tretyakov Gallery Magazine , # 4 2017 (57), issue dedicated to the 260th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Arts
• Tatyana Kochemasova. Zurab Tsereteli: ART brings people closer // The Tretyakov Gallery Magazine , # 4 2017 (57), issue dedicated to the 260th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Arts
• Manana Popova. Not in word, but in deed // Tretyakov Gallery Magazine , # 4 2017 (57), issue dedicated to the 260th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Arts