[1] By the resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of October 11, 1932, “On the creation of the Academy of Arts,” a higher educational institution, the All-Russian Academy of Arts, was opened in Leningrad.

[1][2] By decree of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union on August 5, 1947, the Academy of Arts of the Soviet Union, with its base in Moscow, was formed on the basis of the former All-Russian Academy of Arts.

The Surikov and Repin Institutes of the USSR Academy of Arts were the highest level of a consistent system of artistic education.

In normal times, leadership was exercised by the Presidium of the Academy, headed by the president.

[3] The academy system included:[3][2] Scientific Research Museum in Leningrad with branches: And workshops: