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 Komsomolskoye the Lake Ladoga depression, a graben and syncline structure of Proterozoic age (Precambrian). Deglaciation following the Weichsel glaciation took place in the Lake Ladoga basin between 12,500 and 11,500 radiocarbon years BP. During the existence of Lake Komsomolskoye there have been three sharp drops in the water level, so that the shore consists of small but distinctive terraces formed on the banks. The shores of the lake are indented with several bays and inlets, overgrown with sedges and reeds. On the south-eastern shore of the lake is the village of . At the northern extremity of the lake are the