"Our Contemporary" The Second Exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1972 became one of the notable event in Art of the USSR of 1972. The Exhibition took place in the State Russian Museum. Exhibition continued a series of art exhibitions of the 1970s, dedicated to image of our contemporary and opened one year before.

Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov was a Soviet painter, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, who lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre and portrait painting.