Msta River
After a successful exhibition of 1975, Timkov continues to work actively in Valentinovka village located near Academicheskaya Dacha, as well as his Leningrad studio in a house on the Pesochnaya Embankment 16. He travels to the Crimea, the Black Sea coast of Caucasus, visited France and Yugoslavia. From now until the end of life the majority of his works will be created in the village of Valentinovka] and its surroundings near the Vyshny Volochyok town in Tver Oblast. Timkov worked here every year from April–May to November, sometimes in winter. He painted banks of Msta River and Mstino Lake, and nearby villages Kotchische, Bolshoy Gorodok, Maliy Gorodok, Podol, Kisharino, Terpigorevo. Among Timkov's works of this period were "First Snow", "An Autumn" (both 1977), "Torzhok", "Rainy" (both 1978), "Winter in Torzhok town", "Winter Morning", "Summer Evening", "″A Garden″", "A First Snow" (all 1980), "A Spring" (1982), "Twilight" (1983), "Crimea" (1988), "Pereslavl-Zalesky town" (1992), and a lot others.