On 1 March, the renovated VSU History Museum opened its first exhibition in 2022. It presented 20 works by seven Full Members (Academicians) of the Russian Academy of Arts: Sergey Gulevsky, Olga Dmitrienko, Dmitry Savinkov, Irina Tokareva, Aleksandr Lavrov, Aleksandr Zolotykh, and Yury Astapchenko.
The exhibition was dedicated to the memory of Oleg Savostyuk (1927–2021), Russian graphic and poster artist, professor, member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts. For 20 years (1960–1980), he was the chief poster designer at the Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR. He created a number of posters and banners for ballet performances at the Bolshoi Theatre, which are among the best examples of Russian design art. The works by Oleg Savostyuk are kept at the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, the Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw), in many other museums and private collections in Russia and in the USA, France, Italy, Finland, Spain, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Poland, and Bulgaria. The exhibition featured a painting by Oleg Savostyuk “Bunin is born!”.
