 In 1925, he was moved to Kursk, where he was involved in educational activities and edited a local newspaper.In 1928, the Soviet authorities allowed him to return to Georgia and even consulted him on local affairs.Lordkipanidze, however, started to overtly criticize the forcible collectivization and the creation of the highly unpopular Transcaucasian SFSR in which the Georgian SSR was merged with Armenian SSR and Azerbaijan SSR.