 The Russian Civil War stopped all new construction; the few architectural jobs concentrated in "monumental propaganda" and city planning.Fomin managed to secure the chair of Petrograd (St.Petersburg) Zoning commission, and designed the Field of Mars landscape (1920–1923).Fomin trained a new generation of architects at VKhUTEMAS/VKhuTEIN, at the same time developing his own concept of "proletarian classicism".