 Only in 1988 the restored version was released under its original title, called «a crucial big screen work of art of the early 1960s» by the commission under the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR.In 1962 Georgiy Daneliya invited Shpalikov for a joint effort, and together they wrote a comedy film "Walking the Streets of Moscow".Similar to Ilyich's Gate in tone and message, it seemed suspicious to the Artistic Council at first as they saw it as another movie about «young people wandering around the city doing nothing».