Staraya Ladoga given to Leningrad artists as a base zone for the rest and creative work. The restoring works continued 15 years from 1946. But Leningrad artists began to arrive to Staraya Ladoga from 1940s. It became a source of inspiration for Sergei Osipov, Gleb Savinov, Nikolai Timkov, Arseny Semionov and many others for many years. A House of creativity «Staraya Ladoga» began to work permanently in the beginning of 1960s after the finish of the restoration. It was an important center of the art life of Russia for 30 years. Such artists as Evsey Moiseenko, Alexander Samokhvalov, Vecheslav Zagonek, Dmitry Belyaev,
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