In 1930, Vedeneyeva became the department head of crystal optics at the All-USSR Institute of Mineral Resources [ ru ] in Moscow. The following year, she also began conducting scientific research at Giredmet [ ru ], the State Research and Design Institute of Rare Metals. She worked on some of the first studies of anomalous dispersion, studying nature of the colorations of both natural and synthetic transparent crystals. In 1932, she moved out of the apartment she had shared since 1918 with Avramenko, moved in with her son, and around the same time her relationship with Parnok intensified. Between January 1932 and August 1933, Parnok wrote thirty poems in two cycles to Vedeneyeva. The first cycle, containing seven poems, was called Ursa Major and the second, containing an additional twenty-three poems was called Useless Goods. The poems are a lyric diary of their affair and are openly erotic poems addressed to her lover, making full use of double entendre to taunt potential censors. Parnok continued living with Tsuberbiller and Vedeneyeva visited her almost daily until her death. The relationship was intense and in the beginning, Vedeneyeva was reticent about the physical relationship. It may have been her first lesbian relationship.