In the painting Semionov convincingly conveyed a sense of time and place, the unhurried flow of Leningrad life.

The warm response that met his creativity, inspired the artist; he experienced a need to express himself and his attitude towards Leningrad in new forms.

The classic proportions of the city-museum and the distinctive signs of the present, the recognizable architectural scenery and the city's equally obligatory signs, like rain, umbrellas and wet asphalt, the brightly drawn painter's picturesque accents and the general muffled palette, filled the entire composition with special Leningrad scattered light.

In the early 1980s a reproduction of Malaya Sadovaya Street was printed by the state publishing house "Artist of the RSFSR" for mass distribution in the USSR.

[5][6] In 2005, the American company Soicher-Marin, Inc. released a poster with a picture of Malaya Sadovaya Street, distributed in the US and around the world.

[8] In 2014, Malaya Sadovaya Street was published in an article by Sergey Ivanov on the artist's creation in the two-volume reference and bibliographical collection Pages of Memory.