 The "May" pedagogical traditions were in one way or another preserved until the winter of 1929, when as a result of an extensive anti-bourgeois press campaign and the publication of unfounded accusations in the newspaper "Leningrad Pravda," from 15 January 1929 the school's educators and management were largely replaced—even the bas-relief above the entranceway was destroyed.In the beginning of the 1930s, "K.I.Polyakov" (1902-1946) became director of the school and recreated a good pedagogical collective; the life of the school was put to rights.