During the Great Patriotic War, as chairman of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Soviet Artists, Vladimir Serov worked in besieged Leningrad, participated in the association "Fighting Pencil". Brushes Serov belong to illustrate the works of local classics, including Lewis Carroll's poem "Who Lives Well in Russia," the novel of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace ", Pushkin, Gorky, and others .
  Vladimir Serov - author of a number of political posters "mastering technique, whether in the front ranks of builders of socialism ',' replace ',' Defend the city of Lenin ',' We defended Leningrad. We will restore it! ". In his creative and social activity are pronounced representative of official state ideology, an apologist for the method of socialist realism in its most dogmatic sense.
  
Vladimir Serov is the holder of many honorary titles and titles, including People's Artist of USSR, a member of the USSR Academy of Arts, twice winner of the Stalin Prize, first secretary of the Federation Artists' Union and president of the Academy of Fine Arts of the USSR from 1962 to 1968. In 1980, the homeland of the artist in the village of Emmaus, Tver Oblast was opened Memorial Art House-Museum of Vladimir Aleksandrovich Serov.