B. IOGANSON ST. PETERSBURG ACADEMY ART LYCEUM The Lyceum is one of the oldest art schools in St. Petersburg which history dates back to the Primary School for Painting and Sculpture set up in 1934 and initially located in the historical building of the Academy of Arts. Later, it was renamed into a School of Young Talents and in 1936 on its base there was established a Secondary Art School, which since 1947 was included in the structure of the USSR Academy of Arts. In 1992 it was renamed into a Lyceum that now bears the name of a noted artist and teacher Boris V. Ioganson (1893-1973). Among the Lyceum s graduates are renowned Russian artists, such as M.K. Anikushin, A.P. Levitin, I.S. Glazunov, V.F. Zagonek, B.S. Pesikov, M.M. Shemyakin, V.G. Starov, Y.I. Krestovsky, E.D. Maltsev, A.G. Yeremin, L.E. Kerbel, V.I. Tyulenev, Z.P. Arshakuni, E.I. Neizvestny, V.E. Gorevoy, S.N. Repin, S.A. Kubasov, I.G. Uralov, A.A. Pakhomov and many others.
