Staraya Ladoga Art Foundation of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The paintings created there were exposed in the first-rate art exhibitions. It completed the collections of the main museums of Soviet Union and numerous private collections of Russia and abroad. Also it became a base of an extensive found of painting, graphics and sculpture of the museum “Staraya Ladoga”. Financing of the House of Creativity stopped at the beginning of the 1990s on the breakup of the USSR and after the liquidation of the Art Foundation. It stopped to receive the artists and was closed. Staraya Ladoga Staraya Ladoga (); ; )
Lake Otradnoye Lake Otradnoye Lake Otradnoye (; ) is a lake on Karelian Isthmus, in Priozersky District of Leningrad Oblast, south of the town of Priozersk. The area of the lake is , and the area of its drainage basin is . The lake is the source of the Pionerka River (Pyhäjöki River) which flows to the west and drains into Lake Komsomolskoye. In its turn, Lake Komsomolskoye drains into Vesyolaya River, a tributary of the Vuoksi River. Whereas the lake belongs to the basin of Lake Ladoga which is located about to the east, its outflow runs to the west. The