[3] While studying at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of the Moscow Art Society, Edel created a design for a Lutheran prayer house, school and parsonage, and in 1886 he drew up an original design for the buildings of the Lutheran community in Baku.

Due to the fact that Edel's uncle and father worked in Baku, shortly after graduating from college, in the late 1880s, Ivan Vasilyevich himself moved to this city.

In 1888, Edel began teaching drawing at the Mariinsky Women's Gymnasium in Baku, as well as at the private institution of Mrs. Wald (where, however, he taught for a short time).

In 1893, according to the project of Edel, on 8 Bolshaya Morskaya Street, (now - Bulbul Avenue), a building was built and consecrated, which later housed the Baku provincial treasury.

Also in 1893, Johann Edel built houses for Musa Nagiyev overlooking the streets Bolshaya Morskaya, Molokanskaya (now Khagani), Krasnovodskaya (now Samed Vurgun) and Birzhevaya (now U. Hajibekov).

In 1904, Edel continued the building the edifice of Baku branch of the Imperial Russian Technical Society, started by Joseph Goslavsky, who died in the same year.

In 1894, Ivan Vasilyevich Edel entered the Baku Real School as teacher of drawing and calligraphy, while continuing to teach lessons at the Mariinsky Women's Gymnasium as well.

A. Truskovsky, during the civil war, a member of the Kuban Regional Government for Finance, his further fate is unknown; Lydia, married I.I.

A. Ochinsky, he taught Russian language and literature at the institution of St. Nina, their son Vsevolod was an architect, author of many projects, worked in Sochi; Natalya married the engineer V. G. Ryabchinsky (shot in 1938); Nina worked in Zakgiprovod, got married and changed her last name to Alysheva.