Staraya Ladoga Staraya Ladoga Staraya Ladoga (); ; ) is a rural locality (a "selo") in Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Volkhov River near Lake Ladoga, north of the town of Volkhov, the administrative center of the district. It used to be a prosperous trading outpost in the 8th and 9th centuries. A multi-ethnic settlement, it was dominated by Scandinavians who were called by the name of Rus'. For that reason, it is sometimes called the first capital of Russia. Dendrochronology suggests that Ladoga was founded in 753. Until 950, it was one of the most important trading
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