The article has a program-analytical nature, contains an analysis and assessment of the scientific school of T. M. Stepanskaya, Doctor of Arts, professor, member of Russian Union of Artists. The goal of T. M. Stepanskaya's professional activity is incorporation of Art History in higher educational institutions in Siberia. The authors consider the thesis of T. M. Stepanskaya that the Department of Theory and History of Art is the oldest university tradition, so its presence is organic in higher education institutions. T. M. Stepanskaya realized her own task in finding optimal solutions to actual problem of training specialists in art history in Siberia, as in Siberia have been developed their artistic schools of visual arts, architecture, there was accumulated a large amount of material that needs organizing, typology, cataloging. Siberian artistic work is worth presentation to the world culture. The article shows the importance of building the Dissertation Council--the first in Siberia in Art history (2001). According to the contents and conclusions this article can be carried to a genre of the state-of-the-art review as in it on the basis of systematization and synthesis of certain data relevance of a problem of formation and a demand of schools of sciences of Siberia in the sphere of humanitarian knowledge is estimated.