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 Glubokoye (Karelian Isthmus) Lake Glubokoye (Karelian Isthmus) Lake Glubokoye (, lit. "Deep Lake"; ) is a lake on Karelian Isthmus, in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast. The nearby larger settlements are Kirillovskoye (18 km) and Baryshevo (38 km). The area of the lake is , and the area of its drainage basin is . The lake is connected by an unnamed channel with Lake Bolshoye Rakovoye, located several kilometers northeast. In its turn, Lake Bolshoye Rakovoye is the source of the Bulatnaya River, which flows into the southern branch of the Vuoksi River. The whole system belongs to the basin of Lake Ladoga