Background
Lenyashin, Vladimir Alexeyevich was born on July 22, 1940 in Khabarovsk, Russia. Son of Alexey Vasilievich and Mira Solomonovna (Feigyna) Lenyashin.
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Lenyashin, Vladimir Alexeyevich was born on July 22, 1940 in Khabarovsk, Russia. Son of Alexey Vasilievich and Mira Solomonovna (Feigyna) Lenyashin.
Degree in mechanical engineering, Polytechnic Institute, St. Petersburg, 1963. Degree in art history, Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, 1971. Academician, Academy Arts, Moscow, 1983.
Doctor of Arts, Academy Arts, Moscow, 1990.
Engineer, Electropribor Enterprise, St. Petersburg, 1963-1966;
guide, State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, 1968-1971;
senior research curator, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, 1974-1978;
director, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, 1985-1988;
chief painting department, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, since 1991;
edit-in-chief, Khudozhnik Publications, St. Petersburg, 1978-1985;
professor, head of chair Russian art, Repin Institute Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, since 1983;
chief science secretary of presidium, Academy of Arts, 1988-1991. Member of national committee Cultural Decade Development under Unesco, Moscow, since 1987. Personal member CCOM, since 1985.
Member Cultural Foundation Russia, since 1986.
Deputy Soviet People's Deputies, St. Petersburg, 1985-1988. Senior lieutenant Russian Army Reserve. Member Union Artists Russia.
Married Natalia Mikhailovna Kopeikina Lenyashina, December 14, 1963. 1 child, Tatiana Swetzkaia.