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• Improving the coverage of Russia's visual arts on Wikipedia
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2. Greyhood (talk · contribs) (Russian architecture, late 19th c. and early 20th c. Russian painters)
3. Leningradartist (talk · contribs) (The Leningrad School of painting: Art history and artistic heritage)
4. Nafpaktitism (talk · contribs)
5. Proletarian Banner (talk · contribs) (Soviet Union especially posters and such)
6. Russavia (talk · contribs)
7. DENAMAX (talk · contribs) Maxim Stoyalov
8. SobakaKachalova (talk · contribs)

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Requested articles

• Visual arts in Russia
• Renaissance in Russia or Renaissance influences on Russia
• Baroque in Russia
• Yelena Gagarina - see ru:Гагарина, Елена Юрьевна

Expansion needed

• Russian culture
• Culture of ancient Rus
• Kremlin Armoury
• Hermitage Museum
• Imperial Academy of Arts
• Tretyakov Gallery
• Russian Museum
• Romanticism (more on romantisism in Russia, assess the article with national WikiProjects)
• List of Russian artists (clean-up, consider splitting sculptors to a separate list)
• Abramtsevo Colony
• Radishchev Art Museum
• Benois family
• Pushkin Museum
• Russian avant-garde
• Russian Futurism
• Constructivism (art)
• Socialist realism
• People's Artist of the USSR (add more artists and images, consider a list), People's Artist of the Russian Federation
• Template talk:Russian art movements
• List of Moscow tourist attractions
• Ideological realism

Requested articles

• see List of bridges in Saint Petersburg
• Tented roof architecture in Russia
• Baroque architecture in Russia (Naryshkin baroque, Petrine baroque, Rastrellinesque baroque)
• Neoclassical architecture in Russia (Charles Cameron , Giacomo Quarenghi, Carlo Rossi (architect))
• Coloured Bridges of Saint Petersburg (see ru:Цветные мосты Санкт-Петербурга)
• Alfred Parland (see Church of the Savior on Blood)
• Soviet Academy of Architecture (see Stalinist architecture)
• Luzhkov style
• Ildar Khanov (see Temple of all Religions, [1])
• Izmaylovo Kremlin - see ru:Измайловский кремль

Expansion needed

• Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences
• List of buildings and structures in Saint Petersburg
• List of Russian architects (complete illustrating the list, add notable works for every architect)
• Shchusev State Museum of Architecture
• Fountains in Moscow
• Russian architecture (more references and images, significant expansion needed), Eastern Orthodox church architecture
  • Architecture of Kievan Rus'
  • Suzdal Kremlin
  • Golden Gate (Vladimir)
  • Renaissance architecture in Eastern Europe
  • Gothic architecture (more about Gothic revival in Russia and tented-roof architecture, consider assessment with national WikiProjects)
  • Baroque architecture (more about Baroque in Russia, consider assessment with national WikiProjects)
  • Ukrainian Baroque
  • Naryshkin Baroque
  • Petrine Baroque
  • Russian Revival architecture
  • Byzantine Revival architecture
  • Neo-Byzantine architecture in the Russian Empire (add more images, consider move)
• Kremlin
  • Novgorod Kremlin
  • Pskov Krom
  • White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
• Saint George Cathedral, Yuryev-Polsky
  • Moscow Kremlin
    • Kremlin Wall
    • List of Moscow Kremlin towers
      • Spasskaya Tower
  • Kazan Kremlin
  • Tula Kremlin
  • Astrakhan Kremlin
  • Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
  • Smolensk Kremlin
  • Tobolsk Kremlin
• Vasili Yermolin
• Aristotile Fioravanti
• Palace of Facets
• Petrok Maly
• Aloisio the New
• Aloisio da Milano
• Marco Ruffo
• Pietro Antonio Solari
• Postnik Yakovlev
• Fyodor Kon
• Amusement Palace
• Kideksha
• Tented roof
• Kolomenskoye
• Izmaylovo Estate (add more images)
• Sukharev Tower
• Domenico Trezzini
• Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
• Oranienbaum, Russia, Giovanni Maria Fontana
• Menshikov Palace
• Petergof and Peterhof Palace (clean-up, expand, add more images)
• Kizhi Pogost and Kizhi (expand, add more images, consider merge)
• Pietro Antonio Trezzini
• Pyotr Yeropkin
• Mikhail Zemtsov
• Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin
• Dmitry Ukhtomsky
• Red Gate
• Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi
• Vlakhernskoye-Kuzminki
• Karl Blank
• Neskuchny Garden
• Andrey Kvasov
• Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli
• Alexander Kokorinov
• Yury Felten
• Antonio Rinaldi (architect) (consider move)
• Marble Bridge
• Ivan Starov
• Matvey Kazakov
• Ostankino Palace
• Anichkov Palace
• Yelagin Palace
• New Holland Island
• Gatchina
• Tsarskoye Selo
• Kagul Obelisk
• Marble Palace
• Catherine Palace
• Alexander Palace (expand, add more images)
• Charles Cameron (architect) (expand, add more images)
• Giacomo Quarenghi
• Smolny Institute
• Lomonosov Bridge
• Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg
  • Pavlovsk Palace
  • Pavlovsk Park
• Saint Michael's Castle
• Admiralty building, Saint Petersburg
• Andrey Voronikhin
• Joseph Bové
• William Heste
• Alexander Brullov
  • Malachite Room of the Winter Palace
• Kotomin House (add more images)
• Quay with Sphinxes
• Flooded Belfry
• Moscow Manege
• Carlo Rossi (architect)
• Palace Square
• General Staff Building (Saint Petersburg)
• Senate Square (Saint Petersburg) (expand, add more images)
• Alexander Garden (expand, add more images)
• Alexander Garden (Saint Petersburg)
• Bank Bridge
• Bridge of Four Lions
• Italian Bridge
• Green Bridge (Saint Petersburg)
• Blue Bridge (Saint Petersburg)
• Red Bridge (Saint Petersburg)
• Pevchesky Bridge
• Kazansky Bridge
• Potseluev Bridge
• Pochtamtsky Bridge
• Moika Palace
• Alberto Cavos
• Auguste de Montferrand (add portraits from ru-wiki)
• Viktor Hartmann
• Nicholas Benois
• Gothic Chapel (Peterhof)
• Ivan Ropet
• Konstantin Thon
  • Grand Kremlin Palace
• Andrei Stackenschneider
• Mariinsky Palace
• Mon Repos (Vyborg)
• David Grimm (architect)
  • Chersonesus Cathedral
• Liteyny Bridge
• Trinity Bridge (Saint Petersburg)
• Palace Bridge
• Alexander Kaminsky
• Livadiya, Ukraine
• Vladimir Palace
• Alexander Pomerantsev
• GUM (department store)
• Brothers Bernardacci
• Marian Peretyatkovich
• Leon Benois
• Fyodor Lidval
• Afanasy Seredin-Sabatin
• Kazansky Rail Terminal (expand, add more images)
• Petrovsky Passage
• Pavel Suzor
• Fyodor Schechtel
• Vladimir Osipovich Sherwood (expand, add more images)
• National Romantic style
• Alexis Palace
• Tolstoy House
• Nikolai Markovnikov
• Vladislav Gorodetsky
• Ivan Rerberg
• Ivan Leonidov
• Lev Ilyin
• Alexey Shchusev
• Kiyevsky Rail Terminal
• Lenin's Mausoleum (expand, add more images)
• Vladimir Tatlin (expand, add more images)
• Alexander Vesnin, Leonid Aleksandrovic Vesnin, Viktor Aleksandrovic Vesnin
• Konstantin Melnikov (add better portrait and more images)
• Moisei Ginzburg
• Georgy Krutikov
• Ivan Nikolaev
• Kremlin stars
• Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre
• Stalinist architecture (clean-up, add fair-use images, expand intro)
• Boris Iofan
• Palace of the Soviets (add more images, check neutrality)
• Maritime Victory Park
• Lev Rudnev
• Seven Sisters (Moscow) (clean-up, add fair-use images, consider a separate article on Stalinist skyscrapers)
• Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw
• North River Terminal
• Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky
• Arkady Mordvinov
• Central Moscow Hippodrome
• Arch Moscow
• Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park)
• Pantheon, Moscow
• Vitaly Lagutenko
• Anatoly Polyansky

Attention needed

• Russian cultural heritage register
• Russian neoclassical revival (add more images)
• Red Square (clean-up)
• Saint Basil's Cathedral (clean-up, nominate for GA)
• Amber Room (clean-up, better placing the images needed)
• Vasili Bazhenov
• Winter Palace (clean-up)
• Large Chinese Bridge
• Vincenzo Brenna (add more images)
• Adam Menelaws (add more images)
• Lev Kekushev (add portrait)
• Roman Klein (add portrait)
• Nikolay Zherikhov (de-orphan)
• Pyotr Baranovsky (add more images from ru-wiki)
• Alexey Dushkin (add more images)
• Vladimir Shchuko (add more images)
• Nikolay Lanceray
• Jakob Nikolayevich Popov
• Armenian Cathedral of Moscow

Requested articles

• Sculpture in Russia (make a separate article from redirect)
• Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli
• Sergey Alekseyevich Nikitin (see ru:Никитин, Сергей Алексеевич)
• Etoka Monument (Этокский памятник)

Expansion needed

• Anichkov Bridge
• Monument to Minin and Pozharsky
• Mother Motherland (expand, consider merge)
  • The Motherland Calls
  • Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery
  • Green Belt of Glory
• Cosmonauts Alley
• Monument to the Conquerors of Space
• Nikolay Andreyev
• Mikhail Anikushin (expand, add fair use images)
• Étienne Maurice Falconet
• Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov (expand, add more images)
• Vyacheslav Klykov (expand, add fair use images)
• Ivan Martos (expand, add more images)
• Mikhail Mikeshin
• Mark Antokolski
• Mihail Chemiakin
  • Children are the Victims of Adult Vices
• Sergey Konenkov
• Alexander Matveyev
• Vera Mukhina
  • Worker and Kolkhoz Woman
• Ernst Neizvestny
• Alexander Opekushin
• Boris Orlovsky (expand, add more images)
• Antoine Pevsner
• Monument to Peter I (St. Michael's Castle)
• Fedot Shubin (expand, add more images)
• Zurab Tsereteli (clean-up, add more images, including fair-use)
• Yevgeny Vuchetich (expand, add more images)
  • Mamayev Kurgan
• Yelena Yefimova

Attention needed

• Marie-Anne Collot
• Bronze Horseman (make separate articles on the poem and on the Thunderstone)
• Millennium of Russia (clean-up)
• Ivan Shadr (add portrait)
• Elena Machabell
• Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War (add more images, consider move)

Requested articles

Expansion needed

• Scythian art
• Monomakh's Cap
• Diamond Fund
• Khlebnikov
• Peter Carl Fabergé
  • Michael Perkhin
• Gold Sword for Bravery

Requested articles

• Money of Russia

Requested articles

• Russian arts and crafts

Expansion needed

• Russian icons
• Khokhloma (clean-up, expand gallery)
• Palekh
• Podstakannik (expand, consider move)
• Samovar (expand, clean-up)
• Nikolai Aldunin (expand, de-orphan)
• Dulyovo porcelain works
• Dymkovo toys
• Gzhel
• Gorodets painting
• Russian lacquer art
  • Fedoskino miniature
  • Kholuy miniature
  • Mstyora miniature
  • Palekh miniature
• Zhostovo painting
• Kolchug-Mizar
• Permian bronze casts

Requested articles

• Painting in Russia (make a separate article from redirect)
• Lyrical landscape (see Alexei Savrasov, Fyodor Vasilyev)
• List of Russian icons
• Vasily Khudyakov (see ru:Худяков, Василий Григорьевич)

Expansion needed

• List of Hermitage paintings
  • Benois Madonna
• List of 19th-century Russian painters
• List of paintings on Soviet postage stamps
• Collections of the Russian Museum
• Peredvizhniki
• Mir iskusstva
• Supremus
• Jack of Diamonds (artists)
• Miniature (illuminated manuscript) (add info about Russian miniatures)
• Military Gallery of the Winter Palace
• Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings
• Theophanes the Greek
• Andrei Rublev
• Artel of Artists
• Ivan Aivazovsky (expand, add more images)
• Ivan Akimov
• Fyodor Alekseyev (expand, add more images)
• Aleksey Antropov
• Léon Bakst
• Veniamin Belkin
• Alexandre Benois
• Ivan Bilibin
• Elisabeth Bohm
• Karl Briullov
  • The Last Day of Pompeii
• Fyodor Bruni
• Louis Caravaque
• Pavel Chistyakov
• Boris Chorikov
• Viktor Deni
• Aleksandr Deyneka
• Vladimir Favorsky
• Konstantin Flavitsky
• Nikolai Ge
• Pyotr Gruzinsky
• Grigory Gurkin
• Vasily Helmersen
• Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov
• Sergey Vasilyevich Ivanov
• Valery Jacobi
• Wassily Kandinsky (clean-up, add more images), Abstract art (add portrait of Kandinsky, more about suprematism, rayonism, more works of Russian painters)
• Nikolay Karazin
• Dmitry Kardovsky
• Nikolay Kasatkin
• Sergei Kirillov
• Mina Kolokolnikov
• Konstantin Korovin
• Alexander Kotzebue
• Ivan Kramskoi
• Arkhip Kuindzhi
• Alexander V. Kuprin
• Boris Kustodiev
• Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder
• Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger
• Klavdy Lebedev
• Mikhail Lebedev
• Isaac Levitan
• Dmitry Levitzky
• El Lissitzky (provide fair-use images)
• Konstantin Makovsky
• Vladimir Makovsky
• Kazimir Malevich, Suprematism
• Vasily Mate
• Andrey Matveyev (painter)
• Mikhail Matyushin (add more images)
• Mikhail Nesterov
• Grigory Ostrovsky
• Vasily Polenov
• Illarion Pryanishnikov
• Ilya Repin (clean-up, manage images)
  • Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
• Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov
• Vasily Rodchev
• Franz Roubaud
• Fyodor Rokotov
• Mykola Samokysh
• Zinaida Serebriakova
• Valentin Serov
• Ivan Shishkin
• Konstantin Somov (add more images, check neutrality)
• Evgraf Semenovich Sorokin
• Vasily Surikov
• Grigory Ugryumov
• Alexander Varnek (add more images)
• Apollinary Vasnetsov
• Viktor Vasnetsov (clean-up)
• Alexey Venetsianov
• Vasily Perov
• Vasily Vereshchagin
• Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
• Mikhail Vrubel
• Marianne von Werefkin
• Boris Yefimov
• Alexei Egorovich Egorov
• Konstantin Yuon
• Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets (clean-up, add more images)
• Alexey Zubov
• Nikita Lobanov
• Dmitry Tatishchev

Attention needed

• Israel Abramofsky (de-orphan)
• Ivan Argunov
• Vladimir Borovikovsky
• Konstantin Chebotaryov
• Valera & Natasha Cherkashin (deal with tags)
• Anatoli Efimoff
• Pavel Fedotov (deal with tags)
• Fyodor Gavrilov
• Gavriil Gorelov (de-orphan)
• Igor Grabar (deal with tags)
• Alexei Harlamov (wikify)
• Pavel Kolendas
• Pavel Korin (add more images)
• Nikolay Koshelev (deal with tags)
• Sacha Moldovan (deal with tags)
• Nikolay Mylnikov (painter) (de-orphan)
• Alexei Pakhomov
• Alexander Evgenievich Ponomarev (deal with tags)
• Nicholas Roerich (clean-up, wikify, promote to GA)
• Aleksandr Andreyevich Samokhvalov
• Sylvester Shchedrin
• Alexei Shulgin
• Leonid Solomatkin
• Rafael Stupin
• Szuda M. Barna (de-orphan)
• Semen Zhivago
• Moscow Biennale

Requested articles

• Zaven Arshakuny
• Gleb Verner
• Vasily Sokolov
• Valentin Blinov

Expansion needed

• Mikhail Kozell
• Boris Korneev
• Alexander Ivanovich Sokolov
• Vladimir Krantz
• Galina Smirnova
• Yaroslav Krestovsky
• German Tatarinov
• Vasily Golubev
• Abram Grushko
• Irina Getmanskaya
• Vladimir Gorb
• Mikhail Tkachev
• Mikhail Trufanov
• Vitaly Tulenev
• Yuri Tulin

Requested articles

• Art Russe gallery, briefly mentioned in Andrey Filatov#Art Russe Fund, seems to have enough press coverage for a dedicated article; http://www.artrusse.uk
• Soviet Russia (exhibition, 1975)
• Our Contemporary (Leningrad, 1971)
• Our Contemporary (Leningrad, 1972)

Expansion needed

• Exhibitions of Leningrad Artists
• All-Union art exhibition (Moscow, 1957)
• Anniversary Art Exhibition (Leningrad, 1957)
• Autumn exhibition (Leningrad, 1956)
• "Our Contemporary" regional art exhibition (Leningrad,1975)
• "Leningrad" zonal art exhibition (1964)
• Soviet Russia (exhibition, 1967)
• Soviet Russia (exhibition, 1965)
• Fine Arts of Leningrad (Moscow, 1976)
• Still life of 1950-1990s. The Leningrad School (Saint Petersburg, 1997)
• Regional Art exhibition (Leningrad, 1980)
• Exhibition of Leningrad artists (1951)
• Leningrad painting of 1950-1980s (Saint Petersburg, 1994)
• Painting of 1940-1990s. The Leningrad School (Saint Petersburg, 1996)
• Exhibition of Eleven (Leningrad, 1972)
• Soviet Russia (exhibition, 1960)

Requested articles

Expansion needed

• History of Russian animation
• Soyuzmultfilm
• Klara Rumyanova
• Leonid Shvartsman
• Cheburashka
  • Gena the Crocodile
  • Shapoklyak
  • Cheburashka (film)
  • Gena the Crocodile (film)
  • Shapoklyak (film)
  • Cheburashka Goes to School
• Nu, pogodi!
• Mumi-troll
• Alexander Tatarsky (expand, add fair use images to the articles related to Tatarsky's works)
• Vladimir Suteev
• Luntik

Attention needed

• Black and White (animated film) (check neutrality, deal with tags)
• GoGoRiki

Expansion needed

• Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
• Alexander Rodchenko

Attention needed

• Tatyana Danilyants (deal with tags)
• Zenit (camera) (deal with tags)

Books

Categories for discussion

• 04 Feb 2025 – Category:Russian sculptors by federal subject (talk ·  · hist) was CfDed by Smasongarrison (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Feb 2025 – Category:Russian ceramists by federal subject (talk ·  · hist) was CfDed by Smasongarrison (t · c); see discussion