High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (founded August 2, 1932 as the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists, since 1959 named as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. Acquired its current name after the renaming of Leningrad in Saint Petersburg in 1991). This list represent the Soviet era and contemporary Russian painters from Leningrad/Saint Petersburg. The basis for inclusion in the this List can serve as the membership of the painter at the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, confirmed by authoritative sources.