Leningrad Secondary Art School

The Leningrad Secondary Art School was founded in 1934 by the initiative of Leningrad communist party boss Sergei Kirov as the first in the Soviet Union art school for gifted children.

Since 1992 it has been the B. Ioganson St. Petersburg State Academy Art Lyceum comprising three divisions: painting, sculpture and architecture.

The School boasts its such alumni as Mikhail Anikushin, Alexei Eriomin, Oleg Lomakin, Maya Kopitseva, Nikolai Pozdneev, Yuri Tulin, Mikhail Kaneev, Valentina Monakhova, Vladimir Chekalov, Georgy Kovenchuk, Marina Kozlovskaya, Elena Kostenko, Nina Veselova, Evgenia Antipova, Anatoli Levitin, Vecheslav Zagonek, and other.

[1] The most gifted children with four-year experience in primary school are selected to become students of the Lyceum for the free-of-charge eight-year training.

The Diploma of Secondary Art Education allows its graduates to enroll the higher art educational entities, including I. Repin St. Petersburg State Academy Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.