Spring on Obvodny canal

A bald, mustached man stands close to the viewer at a canal's edge, one hand holding a bag covered in a bright floral pattern. Behind him rise ochre and brick-red tenement buildings, dominated by a tall chimney releasing dark smoke into a pale sky. The foreground canal water is dark red-brown, its surface broken by patches of melting ice.

The buildings are painted in warm, weathered oranges and rust tones with simple, flattened architectural detail, while the sky stays cool and pale in contrast. The man's face is modeled with more careful realism, his steady sideways gaze giving the scene a quiet, watchful presence. The combination of industrial grime and thawing ice creates a subdued, melancholic sense of urban early spring.