Viktor Michailovich Ladviščenko

Viktor Michailovič Ladviščenko was a Russian monumentalist painter, member of the USSR Artist Union.

Active throughout the 1960s and into the 1980s, he was one of the most representative members of the post-Stalinist current of the Socialist realism.

Born in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, in 1930, he completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Industries of Leningrad and graduated with a specialization in monumental painting. His diploma, designed in collaboration with his colleague Marat Ghirshevič Podoksin, was the celebration of the Red Army: with Podoskin, Ladviščenko conceived the project for the pictorial decoration of the main hall of the Museum of Military History of the Artillery in St. Petersburg. Their supervisors were A. Kazantsev and K. Ignatov.