On September 1, the museum hosted the annual presentation of diplomas and memorable gifts to students of art faculties of universities “For loyalty to the traditions of realistic art”. The awarding ceremony was attended by the Academic Secretary of the Council of Rectors, Associate Professor Vladimir Semenovich Listengarten and the head of the. the exposition and exhibition department of the museum Oksana Vyacheslavovna Lepneva.

This interuniversity project has been implemented since 2015. Its founders are the Council of Rectors of Voronezh universities, the university-wide newspaper “University Bulletin”, the Center for Spiritual Revival of the Chernozem Region and the I.N. Kramskoy VOHM.

The organizers do not generally celebrate the successes of young people in artistic creativity, but those who successfully and creatively follow realistic traditions. After all, realistic art, in particular in painting, is the artistic method that seeks to most fully reflect reality in its diversity and typical features.

In 2023, students of:
Voronezh State University took part in the project
Voronezh State Institute of Arts
Voronezh State Pedagogical University
Voronezh State Technical University
Voronezh Art College (Technical School)
of Yelets State University
Lipetsk State Pedagogical University
Kursk State University

Diplomas and memorable gifts were awarded to Anastasia Adonyeva (Yelets), Konstantin Odnochko (Lipetsk), Ekaterina Belenova (Voronezh), Vadim Koza (Voronezh), Arina Povalyaeva (Voronezh), Maxim Sokolov (Voronezh), Mikhail Kopytin (Voronezh), Polina Sereda (Kursk).

Also, for the fourth time, a diploma was awarded to them. Vladimir Dmitrievich Dobromirov (former Director of the I.N. Kramskoy Art Museum, honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Honored Artist of the Voronezh Region). The award was awarded to the director of the museum Yulia Nikolaevna Zaichenko.