 In the 1940s, he painted many portraits of members of the Soviet intelligentsia (including Leonid Leonidov, Mikhail Nesterov, Alexey Tolstoy, Kachalov and Nadezhda Peshkova (Gorky's daughter in law)).He painted the fresco "Match to the Future" for the "Palace of Soviets" in the Moscow Kremlin and a Triptych devoted to Alexander Nevsky.In the 1950s, Korin worked on mosaics for the Moscow Metro.