The Regional Art Exhibition of 1980 became one of the most important and largest Soviet Art exhibition of the end of 1970s. The Exhibition took place in the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, which was handed over to Leningrad artists three years before.

Evgenia Petrovna Antipova was a Russian painter, graphic artist, and art teacher. She was known for her genre compositions, portraits, landscapes, and still life paintings, which she created using oils and watercolours. Among her favourite themes were apple orchards and Crimean landscapes.