Victor Mikhailovich Oreshnikov was born January 20, 1904 in the city of Perm, Ural Province.
In 1927 Victor Oreshnikov graduated from the Leningrad VkhuTeIn in Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin workshop.
Since 1926 he has participated in Art Exhibitions.
Victor Oreshnikov painted portraits, historical and genre paintings, landscapes, still-lifes.
Victor Oreshnikov was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists since 1932.
In years 1930-1987 Victor Oreshnikov taught in Ilya Repin Institute.
Master of Art-criticism (1937). Doctor of Art-criticism (1948). Professor of Ilya Repin Institute (1949-1987).
Victor Oreshnikov was a member of the Academy of Arts of the Soviet Union (1954). The People\'s Artist of the Soviet Union (1969).
Victor Oreshnikov was the Soviet Union State Prize-winner (1948, 1950).
In years 1953-1979 Oreshnikov Victor Mikhailovich was a head of Ilya Repin Institute.
His personal exhibitions were in Leningrad (1954, 1974, 1985), Moscow (1975).
Victor Mikhailovich Oreshnikov died in Leningrad in 1987.
Paintings by Victor Oreshnikov are in State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, in the lot of Art Museums and private collections in the Russia, France, China, England, and throughout the world.