Maya Kuzminichna Kopitseva (Russian: Ма́йя Кузьми́нична Копы́тцева; 18 May 1924 – 6 June 2005) was a Soviet Russian still-life painter and an Honored Artist of the RSFSR who lived and worked in Leningrad - Saint Petersburg.

She was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, which before 1992 was the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of the Russian Federation,[1] and was regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.

[2] Maya Kuzminichna Kopitseva was born on 18 May 1924 in Gagry, Abkhazia, USSR.

She was a wife of well-known Russian painter and art educator Anatoli Levitin, a People's Artist of the USSR.

Kopitseva died of thyroid cancer in Saint Petersburg in 2005.