On the painter's gamut are the forests of Elabuga.

On the 25th of January in 1832 was born an Artist Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin in a little town Elabuga. When he was studying in Petersburg in Academy of Art the teachers noticed his talent to landscape painting. And it is true that the Academician of Painting I. Shishking became a singer of Russian forest. In his home town in Elabuga were created a lot of his paintings “Pine wood on the sunlight” (1886), “Korabelnii wood” (1898) and many others.