Dormition Cathedral (Russian: Успенский Собор) in the selo of Staraya Ladoga, Volkhovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia is one of the oldest churches of Russia, dating from the second half of the 12th century.

It controlled one of the most important waterways at the time, the Trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks, of which the Volkhov River was a part of.

In the 1950s, a complex restoration was performed, the side chapels and the bell-tower were demolished.

The 20th century restorations uncovered approximately 50 square metres (540 sq ft) of the original painting, but most of them in fragments, so that it is difficult to reconstruct the original topics and disposition.

[4] The frescoes seem to be close in style to those in Polotsk and in Veliky Novgorod.