Kazan Art School

It's one of the oldest art schools in Russia, with a continuous history of more than 100 years.

In its early years, it had four departments: painting, engraving, architecture, and sculpture.

Benkov, Alexander Grigoriev and Nicolai Fechin, for whom the school is now named.

[3] In these years the school was the basis for a series of several Kazan artists groups: "The Sunflower" (1918) which combined the aesthetics of modernism to avant-garde trends; "Rider" (1920-1924) which announced the development of engraving as an independent art; "Tatar Left Front of Art" (TatLEF) (1923-1926); the "Declaration of Five" (1927); and the "Tatar Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia "(TatAHRR) (1928), the regional branch of the national AKhRR socialist realism association.

The school remained open through the war years, and continues to provide arts education and training.