Ladoga Canal major canals constructed in Russia. It was one of the projects of Peter the Great, who ordered its construction in 1718. Rapid economic development in Russia required a significant expansion of routes, especially waterways. One part of the Vyshny Volochek waterway (1709) linking the Volga river to the Baltic Sea, passed through Lake Ladoga. The Ladoga section of the route was one of the most difficult and dangerous because the lake is prone to winds and storms which destroyed hundreds of cargo ships. Peter the Great decided to avoid the navigation in the huge and stormy lake by building a
Staraya Ladoga House of Creativity first of all landscape. Among them "Volkhov River. Last Snow" (1967) by Nikolai Timkov, "Volhov. Windy Day" (1964) by Leonid Whyshla, "At the Volhov River" (1967) by Nikolai Furmankov, "St. George's Cathedral. Staraya Ladoga" (1965), "Spring is Coming" (1972) by Vladimir Ovchinnikov, "Spring on the Volkhov River" (1968) by Lazar Yazgur, "Memoires" (1969) by Irina Dobrekova, "Chernavino Village" (1968), "White Night over the Volkhov River" (1979) by Dmitry Belyaev, "Street in Staraya Ladoga" (1962), "Staraya Ladoga" (1964), "At the Volkhov River" (1964) by Ivan Varichev, "At the Volkhov River" (1965) by Boris Ugarov, and other. The paintings were exposed in