 In 1920 with several friends he even attempted to organize in Nizhny Novgorod the third PanRussian Esperantist Convention, but that failed because chaos and the difficult economic situation in the country did not yet permit organizing the arrangements.The convention came about one year later in Petrograd, and at the convention they founded the Sovetlanda Esperantista Unio (later the Sovetrespublikara Esperantista Unio) (SEU).Young Vladimir Varankin was elected as a member of its central committee.