  We calculate the contribution from nonlocal vacuum condensates of quark
fields to the hadronic part of the photon structure function $F_2(x)$ in the
operator product expansion approach to QCD. The result is a smooth function of
$x$ and its magnitude is comparable with one of gluon condensate. Extrapolation
to the case of real photon is realized with the help of the model, suggested by
Gorsky et al. As a result we obtain a substantial improvement of the agreement
with experimental data for the standard value of the parameter $\lambda_q^2
\equiv \langle\bar qD^2 q\rangle /\langle\bar qq\rangle \approx 0.5 \ \ GeV^2
$.}
