The cityscape depicts the life of the main street of Leningrad on a summer day of the mid-1980s.

This painting continued a lyrical series of works devoted to Leningrad, which Savinov began thirty years earlier.

Savinov was attracted to the problems of showing people and objects in their environment.

This painting truthfully and somewhat ironically show the atmosphere of anticipation and a lively crowd, which are specific not only for this part of the Nevsky Prospect before exit the Palace Square, but also for the mid-1980s in general.

[citation needed] In 1991 Nevsky Prospekt was shown in Savonov's solo exhibition at the Leningrad Union of Artists.