Igor Petrovich Veselkin (Russian: И́горь Петро́вич Весё́лкин; 8 March 1915 – 1997) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, scenographer, stage designer, and art teacher, professor of the Repin Institute of Arts, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad).

[2] Veselkin Igor Petrovich was born on 8 March 1915 in the town of Ranenburg, Ryazan Governorate.

In 1947 Veselkin graduated from the Repin Institute of Arts in Mikhail Bobishov workshop.

[4] After graduating in the 1947–1951 years, Igor Veselkin had continued his postgraduate studies in the Repin Institute of Arts.

[5] In 1951, Igor Veselkin began teaching painting and drawing, first in the Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts in Moscow, then in Higher School of Industrial Art named after Vera Mukhina in Leningrad, and in the Repin Institute of Arts., where he was professor of painting after 1989.