 He is a teacher at the Leningrad Conservatory because Joseph Pustylnik were able to give the Seminar status actually a branch of the Leningrad Conservatory, without the right to issue state diplomas to the participants.However, he always contributed to any student in the admission to the Leningrad Conservatory.In the years of perestroika in connection with the deteriorating health Joseph Pustylnik was forced to leave the favorite Leningrad and the Leningrad Conservatory and move towards her daughter to Moscow, where he died in 1991 at the age of 86.