 In 1995, Rabbi Azman returned to Kiev and began a synagogue in one of the rooms of the grand Brodsky Choral Synagogue in the center of the city, which had been turned into a puppet theater during the Soviet period.There he worked to rebuild Kiev's Jewish community, which grew until the Kiev government granted the entire synagogue to the Jewish community.Rabbi Azman went on to found several communal soup kitchens, a chevra kadisha (burial service), 1 kindergarten, 1 school, an orphanage, and many other charitable and educational institutions throughout Ukraine.He also rehabilitated Kiev's Jewish cemetery and has created a medical center where poor families receive free medical care by volunteer doctors.